December 7th. Isolated but beautiful.

Before leaving the Nashville area we visited a landmark eatery "The Loveless Cafe and Motel" circa 1951. Here we experienced our first BAR-B-Q (pork roast and hot sauce), brown beans, and GRITS.

December 7th and 8th we stayed at an isolated but beautiful state park, The Sardis Dam project south of Memphis in Mississippi. Before finding this park we pulled the RV 15 to 20 curving, hilly miles into rural Mississippi locating our destination in a very desolate economically deprived area only to discover that the sites were too small. The park personnel wasn't concerned. She said "just go back the way you came (20 miles) drive around the lake toward Memphis and maybe we can accommodate you in another park! Okay, we decided to travel further south to Sardis Dam. Here we met our first evacuee from the Hurricane area. An 80 something man alone who had left his trailer-park in Waveland on the Gulf coast when he heard the warning and who had not returned. All his friends had disbursed and the park was destroyed.