We spent almost 2-hours over a cup of coffee and WiFi at the Coffee Bean shop in West Monroe, LA. Even when traveling, finances must be handled. Of course doing email and updating the blog and Picasa foto library was included.
The Biedenharn Museum and Gardens in Monroe, LA are worth spending several hours walking the grounds and taking the tour. This home originally owned by Emy-Lou Beindenharn is now a museum showing the history of the family’s involvement with CocaCola, their history and the history of that time. The home was built in 1913 and has been remodeled several times during Emy-Lou’s life. When she died in 1984, the home was converted into this museum. See : http://www.bmuseum.org/main.htm Pictures are not allowed inside the main house, so our pictures are only of the garden.
A quick stop at a Sonic Drive-in in West Monroe was next. This is a newer Sonic so the Roadtrek fix under the awning without a problem. We’ve had to stop short in a Sonic a week ago because the awning was only 8-foot 2-inches high and the Roadtrek is 8-foot 6-inches. By the time our order, banana split for me and a hot fudge sundae for Mary was delivered, both were melted and not all that inviting. Also, the nut topping we ordered were missing. I returned Mary’s complete sundae and most of my banana split. New ones were delivered after a while. I can’t say the condition of the new ones were much better but at least the nuts were added.
We crossed the Mississippi River into Vicksburg in the early afternoon. We spend a short while in the Vicksburg National Military Park. That was all I could stomach. I just keep asking myself “why do we build memorials to our stupidity?” That war could have so easily be averted; so many lives lost, so much suffering, so much cost. For What? For those who think the Civil war was about slavery should think again. That was the reason given to try to justify that war. It was the “Weapons of Mass Destruction” saying of that time.
We settled into the Magnolia RV Park in Vicksburg. Tired and feeling saddened by what we saw.
