Following Fagan Page Two

Wiggins McDonalds.
S.McGregregor to Clubhouse
   (my first scare)
Crossing Flint Creek
     the creek is down stream from             Flink Creek Water Park
Big Four Rd
Oil Well Rd.
Oil Well Rd U turned to Bluff Cr. Rd
Fairly Bridge Rd.
Benndale Rd (picture of house )
Crossed Black Cr.
Deep Creek (picture)
Turned on Jim Jam Rd. still going east
Jim Jam hit MS 57 go north.
57 north to Merrill -Salem Rd.
Crossed Pascagoula River right below
confluence of Leaf River and Chickasawhay (big bridge pics)
entered Merrill
Passed Merrill Crossroads Rd.
     (It called me, later)
Illinois Central RR ,
      (that was the train bridge picture)
Merrill Rd
North on US 98 to MS 57 East
North on Neely Rd, A Fagan quote reguarding Neely,"not much and still not much.
Crossed Old Ms.24 Post Office Rd. (Neely-Avera Neely Rd (north)
West on Pleasant Hill Rd. (west
Hintonville Rd.
South on Wingate Rd
west on Calvary Ch. Road
North on Pat Hinton Rd.
South on Old Augusta Rd.
Crossed Bogue Homo River
North on Buck Creek
East on Henry James
North on MS 29
Picture on 29 after bridge.
Right on Thomas Creek Rd.
North on Corinth Church Rd.
Changes to Old Richton Rd when it
crosses MS 42.
North on Macedonia Rd.
Merge into Augusta Rd.
West on Ovett Union-Moselle rd.
Hit US 11 North.
Ray stopped and quizzed 2 locals about the where abouts of a restaurant. I noticed an aire of panic. He was lost off his planned route and needed a refueling.
Moselle Seminary Rd West to
Monroe Rd South
Sanford Rd.
Guthrie Carter Rd North
Louie Bullock Rd West
David Ingram
Bethal Ch.
Old Hwy 49 South
to Grass Locke Rd .
to Ms 598 west took picture oo4.
Union Ch. Rd. West
Marson Trigg Rd.
MS. 589 south through Sumrall
South on Oloh Rd. was singing.
to Purvis Oloh Rd.
Bay Cr. Road
to Purvis Columbia West to
Tatum Salt Dome Rd.
(sounds interesting)
MS 13 East to
Bilbo, I sung , I was feeling 4am.
Baxterville Rd (sand) (sand) (sand)
Spring Hill Rd. (thankfully)
Into Poplarville.

On the Road Again

Once moving the temperature was perfect. I shed the long sleeved t-shirt leaving me clad in perfection, a light gray Walmart short sleeved t-shirt and jeans, my uniform uniform.

We both slammed on our brakes sliding to a hault and took identical pictures of the falling down cabin on Benndale Rd. He sent me his and I sent him mine. Analysis and comparison followed with a conference which deterimined that his shot was better, thus I'm using his. A sleuthful person will see that the dates differ on our pictures.. They are both wrong or he ran the route prior to us running it? Mine is just wrong as I had no idea where I was even then. It was the 12th of May. So much for impressing you with the exactness of further information.

    On this page the pictures are almost in order as most are of the same thing. This will be the last time I'll attempt orderlyness. Grouping seems easier as I was lost and I dropped the pictures and got them mixed up.
    To the right is the old Merrill Bridge over the newly formed Pascagoula River. We were right below the Confluence of the Leaf and Chickasawhay (Chick-ah-saw-hey).
Confluences are powerful places. They are Nature's marriages. I could go on but I've given up on editorials.
    Back to the bridge. This shot was not enough to celebrate one fine bridge and the joining waters.
   Ray really pulled a rabit out of the hat with this bridge intro.
We had been riding the all dirt Merrill-Salem Road when it just popped up. Ray said it had been out of commision for "a while" with no approaches. Just a skeleton crossing the river.

I jumped the railing and almost fell down the embankment as the grass was covering what I thought was ground. I backed up and tried again. Now that picture could be in Bridges Digest. It is that good. The dark figure above the red asterick is Ray, being patient.

Lacking a train, an unfortunate occurrance, although common, spanning the new Pascagoula River was the Illinois Central Railroad Bridge. This may be its first time pictured on the Internet. I have a lot of proud "first".

I have learned not to ask permission to take people's pictures. The natural answer is "no" because a lot of people feel they are being exploited for some reason. I kept this picture taking stealth. It is simply to demonstate that people fish in the river. I really was moved to ask if they could tell Leaf from Chickasawhay fish. I bet they'd have an answer. Best I kept that question stealth also.

This picture was taken first. It is of the Confluence. The picture of the bridge and Fagan was the last one taken because post picture taking I ducked into the woods to admire the shrubbery and was eaten by mosquitos which chased me out of their woods and up the embankment and buzzed the both of us until we made our escape across the bridge.