Hattiesburg

Not a bad first day. I had to walk most of the night and morning but got a couple good rides. I’ve been heading toward Hattiesburg, MS., where I once landed in a small, charter plane. It’s a ways up I-98, but I’m now hanging out next to a little oxbow lake just about a half mile from the airport. I remembered the river that runs eest of the airport and was going to camp there, but when I walked up Simms road from old MS-49 (the airport exit off of 98), it was still kind of busy, so I went on up past the river bridge to Old River Road and then tried to walk back west to the river. I found the oxbow, instead. There’s a couple of houses on the east side, but the west shore is quiet and I can bathe, now that it’s dark. This is an old, winding and slow river, just like the one I crossed back near the town of McLain. I wonder if it’s the same one? I’m running on batteries, so I’m cutting this short and saving what I’ve got till I get to an outlet. At least the wireless thingy works, thanks to the houses:)