[Northern Yankee]

Here's a story.

Years ago my folks were traveling to Tupelo, Mississippi. (Did I tell you this one?) Anyway they got lost and stopped off at a farmhouse to ask for directions. An elderly southerwoman, just as sweet as sugar, came out and pointed down the road and said, "Follow that road for about 20 miles and it will take you right into Tupelo."

My father asked her, "What kind of town is Tupelo?"

And the woman responded, "Don't know... been here all my life and I tain't never been there."

True story!

[gulfcoast6]

I understand that, we have some real backward places here, not many anymore but there are still some.

I am wanting to take my GD on a trip thru Mississippi as she is always asking me where this place is, where that one is, I think it would be good for her to see our state. To see the moss draped old Oaks in the southern part, to go in the fall and see the change of colors in the trees, here everything is mostly green year round, no change of colors.