Mississippi kicks off Spring Break 2008 highpointing marathon

We kick off a long week of state highpointing in the South with Mississippi. Our journey starts on Sunday March 16th from from Becki's parent's house in Cincinnati with our Golf TDI packed up with Pig (our dog, not an actual pig). We unsuccessfully attempted to unload Pig at Becki's parents' house "Hotel Charlie" for the week while we traveled across the South.

The drive was long to the first highpoint and our VW TDI Golf rolled over to 100,000 miles just as we crossed into Mississippi from Tennessee.

We accidentally flew the wrong flag for this pose, so I GIMPed in the correct one. Pig is modeling her pink Copper Mountain Colorado bandanna.

Pig is all about the "hero" pose.

We barely made it into the northeast corner of Mississippi before we crossed into Alabama in search of a place to camp for the night. Without a nightly camping plan, we used the tent symbol on our road atlas to search out camping sites. We wasted an hour or two driving to a state park to find that it was closed. Hint: state parks typically close at sunset. Thanks to our computer street atlas, we found phone numbers and navigated our way to a private site and settled down for the night as the only occupant.