We went out to Dollar General and Mc Donalds before hooking up the car and then headed west into Mississippi.  We are at the Chewalla Lake campground, just east of Holly Springs, Mississippi.  It is a beautiful campground, but needs some cleaning up and some repairs.  The Forest Service runs this one themselves and I can see what the workcamper at Clear Creek meant about the difference when a management company runs the campground.  The bath house is almost new, but the overhead light has so many bugs in it, that the room stays dark.  The electrical pedistals have the hot and neutrals reversed and some of the roads have big potholes in them.  There is an Indian mound here, but no interpretive sign.  There is a nice swimming beach and a little island with a bench connected to the mainland by a covered bridge.  A couple of geese have claimed the island as their own.  The camp host was working as a volunteer in New Orleans and has a dog that was rescued from Katrina, he still won't go near water.  We went into Holly Springs, a town spared during the Civil War to see antibellum plantation houses, but couldn't find any.  There are a lot of nice old houses though and the town square is impressive.  There was the birthplace of Ida B. Wells house which was turned into a museum, but we didn't go in.  We also saw Rust College, a predominantly black college founded in 1868. There is a lot of kudzu around, which looks terrible this time of year and I noticed they have an annual Kudzu Festival.  The weater again was perfect, with temperatures in the upper 70's.

 

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