9-27 update

Blog-delinquent, but to catch up:

9-13 mt nebo st park, Ark. Turned out to be a mountaintop 19th cent. summer resort spot. Extremely steep 2 mile road to top with 10 sharp switchbacks.
9-14 Took a short but difficult hije along the rim of the mountain. Trail dates from 1890.
9-15 to mtn view Ark. for week-long mountain dulcimer festival. Spent next  5 days learning, playing, and enjoying music. Thos. and Valerie (from the motorcycle rally) were there, too, and we became good friends.
9-21 leaves starting to turn in the Ozarks as we drove E. Saw our first cotton and kudzuo of the trip. To john kyle state park, MS, part of an immense Corps if Engineers rec area. Maybe 250 campsites, 6 occupied.
9-22 After church intended to go canoeing but too windy. Hiked a nature trail through a cypress swamp and uplands. Explored by car and stumbled on a bayou shanty settlement of maybe 20 bldgs.
9-23 to Lake Lurleen st pk AL near Tuscaloosa. Almost full of Univ of Ala fan RV's parked for football season. Beautiful lakeside campsite.
9-24nice canoeing on Lk. Lurleen.
9-25 to Columbus GA. Will visit Karter tomorrow.
9-26 picked up K from school and had fun with him rest of afternoon. Out to dinner with him.
9-27 took K to school and said goodbye. Drove to site of infamous Andersonville civil war POW prison where 13000 of 45000 prisoners died in just 14 months. They're buried there- natl cemetery.