DEFINITE Natchez, MS meet March 19, 2022!!

[signalman]

I just returned to the Garden State a few hours ago. It was a great trip and look forward to revisiting Natchez at some point in the future. Now for the crummy parts of traveling...unpacking and laundry and attending to a week and a half's worth of unread mail 

[cjk374]

I just returned to the Garden State a few hours ago. It was a great trip and look forward to revisiting Natchez at some point in the future. Now for the crummy parts of traveling...unpacking and laundry and attending to a week and a half's worth of unread mail 

Glad to hear you made it home sir! If you come back this way, lemme know.

[cjk374]

I have been absent the last few days due to many hours driving, but I am finally safe and sound at my parents' house south of Richmond, VA.  (Basically, I followed MS 33/LA 19 back to Baton Rouge, followed I-10/I-12 to US 301, and followed US 301 to NC before snagging NC 4 and taking NC/SR 903 to South Hill, VA, before heading here via I-85.)

I did quite a few loops to get the I-110s in Biloxi and Pensacola and was impressed by all of the water crossings (and that the FL 281 bridge now takes EZPASS).  Also due to hotel issues related to a rebranding, I also got myself more time to tour US 70 around Selma-Smithfield before I-42 takes over.

It was good to meet you at the meet, and glad you got to see lots of sights before making it home.

[oscar]

Just got back home. As noted above, I came back from the meet the long way, via Texas.

I came back pooped, from both the final days of the trip and also the medical procedures I had to endure once I got back (including an MRI exam at 5:30am, for which I had to stay overnight in a recovery bed, to make sure I was available when a time slot for the machine opened up).

As with other meet attendees, much of my itinerary to and from the meet was county-collecting. On the way out to Natchez, I re-completed Alabama for my "round 2" count, then some more counties in central Mississippi and NE Louisiana. On the way out of Natchez, I finished off "round 2" in Mississippi, then the southern layer of parishes in Louisiana to re-complete that state. In Texas, I finished off US 57, and re-clinched I-35 and I-169 (weird that all of the latter's Interstate route markers were on frontage roads, with at-grade road and rail crossings, rather than the Interstate-grade TX 550 Toll), Then I re-completed its counties for "round 2" (it helped that I had about 90% of its 254 counties covered pre-meet, but the other 10% were widely scattered across the state). I didn't have time to finish off Arkansas, but did cover the northern layer of counties, and a small cluster west of Little Rock. Then I re-completed Tennessee with its northern layer of counties, including out-of-the-way Lake and Houston counties, before limping home on April 6.