From Dallas to Ruston, LA and Jackson, MS

A blog post by Sasha W

We drove from Texas into Ruston. In Ruston, we got some lunch, and each of us tried some traditional Louisiana food, including onion rings, red beans and rice, meat pockets, catfish etouffee, and more!

Then we went on a short, fun mountain bike ride.

-a statue from when we entered Louisiana.

Then we went from Ruston into Jackson, Mississippi, and stayed in a hotel that night. In the morning, me, Annalee, Stella, and Kate walked around Jackson for a bit. There were quite a few run-down spots around the town. Out of the whole spot we walked around in, we only found one place to eat, a donut shop. There were many signs around town that had information about some history of Jackson. We then went to a smallish museum about civil rights and black history of Mississippi.

-me, Annalee, and Stella at the old Jackson capital building.

We also did drive through Birmingham, AL and stopped and walked around an outdoor exhibit in Kelly Ingram Park that had some statues and signs about the civil rights movement.