#353 Leroy Percey state park 1 night

We didn't know anything about this park but it was 2 hours away. I looked it up and I was surprised that he was a pretty decent guy for his era. Here is some Wiki info

He achieved wealth as an attorney. Often being paid in land, he became a major planter in Greenville, Mississippi, in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. His plantation of Trail Lake eventually covered 20,000 acres and was worked by black sharecroppers and Italian immigrants. He also leased land in Chicot County in the Arkansas Delta. Percy become active in politics. He was elected by the state legislature to the US Senate and served from 1910 to 1913. He was defeated in 1912 by populist James K. Vardaman, a white supremacist, in the first popular election of US senators in the state, who attacked Percy for being relatively liberal on race. In 1922 Percy came to national notice by confronting Ku Klux Klan organizers in Greenville and uniting local people against them. During the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, Percy appointed his son, William Alexander Percy, to direct the work of thousands of black laborers on the levees near Greenville.

It was a pretty simple little place near a very small town.

We were there during the path of a heavy tropical storm that was just under hurricane strength. I can tell you it rained its little fanny off. When we got there, I could tell that it was a place where people did some hunting. You will see a sign like deer carcasses only here do not put blood in the bathroom sink or something.

This is when you know you're out in the country. Looking for dinner we went into town and the eating place was also a gas station but had great fried chicken and sides and we enjoyed it but not much on atmosphere.

We pulled in and nosed around. I didn't see anything good or bad about it. the price was like 18 bucks and had a full hook-up. There was a negative in that someone down at the very end had an RV that looked like it had been through pure hell and I couldn't even believe that it would even pass as an RV anymore. I thought to myself maybe somebody parked it there and died and they haven't figured out what to do with it yet. It was jacked way up in the front with a blue tarp on top and the windows boarded up. I decided one night of this would do because it’s kind of seemed a little run down. Needless to say, it was that Rv that made it look run down the most.

I was kind of strolling around the next day and good Lord somebody had gone to the bath house and was walking back that way and I thought okay what's going on here. I swear she got inside that awful thing called an RV travel trailer and that was her house. Man, if that was where I was living, I got to tell you it would be time to do something else. Maybe the front was jacked up so much so that when it rains inside it will flow out towards the rear. I couldn’t see how she could ever get any sleep on that steep of an angle.

I felt grateful for what we had after I saw her go inside that thing. It also occurred to me that maybe she hates it but that’s all she has so I had to watch my attitude.