Day 3 of our 2018 Jumbo Road Trip.
Vicksburg, MS to Tyler, TX. I had picked out a breakfast spot not too far from the hotel, Caffe Paradiso, but when we pulled into the parking lot 3 minutes before their scheduled opening, there were no cars around. Donna popped out, peered into the dark windows and saw zero activity, so we opted for plan B. I found another place in downtown on the internet that sounded promising called The Mad Baker. It was worth the drive, the food was great and Donna bought a souvenir T-shirt.
We have been staying away from President Eisenhower’s National System of Interstate and Defense Highways as much as possible, but after two days that consisted of almost entirely back road driving we blasted across Louisiana on I-20. Just 3 miles shy of doing the entire 189 miles of the state’s Interstate we popped off in Greenwood to loop south a bit towards our overnight stop of Tyler, TX.
We knew we were in Texas long before we saw the sign because the bumpy, cracked, hastily patched two-lane road turned into a smooth as a baby’s bottom, well maintained four-lane. You can tell the oil money in Texas finds its way into the infrastructure unlike in Louisiana, where in ends up lining the pockets of the corrupt political machine.