Interesting Times

Right now I am sitting in our trailer at Natchez State Park while a front and a thunderstorm roll through. We are the blue dot on the My Radar app on my iPad. The red and yellow is the strongest part of the storm and it’s crossing from west to east.

This is our site and earlier today it was quite mild.

This is actually our second site in the park. At the first one we couldn’t get satellite TV. No problem, because we now have Verizon home internet and YouTube TV. Well the internet works fine, but for some reason the YouTube TV said it needed to update our location, but wouldn’t do it on the smart TV, so we couldn’t get that to work. This whole TV thing is driving us crazy. The park personnel are very nice here and we moved to this site.

As a bonus, there’s a view of the lake from here. It’s especially nice because most of the campsites are empty. A definite plus about being full time RVers is that a lot of the year the campgrounds are fairly empty. You have just enough neighbors to keep it from feeling eerily isolated.

After taking care of that business we drove to town (Natchez, Mississippi) and treated ourselves to a game of disc golf in lovely Duncan Park.

It was a very warm afternoon and there were clouds scurrying across the blue sky.

We were surprised when the course took us up and around an old mansion.

Apparently Natchez has plenty of them, and this one belongs to the city and is part of the park. It’s being renovated now and according to the sign will have billiards, restrooms and a pavilion.

There were also some spectacular old live oaks. To get a sense of the size of this one note my golf disc near the roots. I played right under its branches.

There was also this old steam engine. Though I didn’t see a plaque near it so don’t know its history,

Bud noticed that it had huge, external pistons,

and its wheels were driven by gears, rather than rods.

We have a couple of more days here and intend to delve more into the history of this interesting place.