Everyone in Mississippi loves Oxford. It is the same in Texas, where Austin is the favorite city. We have been told many times that we must visit Oxford, the home of The University of Mississippi "Ole Miss" to everyone here. So here we are. We drove up on the Natchez Trace, then left to use small highways, finally arriving mid afternoon just in time for a huge thunderstorm. The rain was pouring down so we checked into a pleasant but not fancy hotel to wait out the storm, but it never did. We watched the soccer game, at least until the electricity stopped. The only activity open to us to take a nap.
Oxford is a town of twenty thousand, which doubles during the school year. When we first arrived in town we drove around the campus even though it was raining and found a very pretty campus. The university was the first in Mississippi, in 1836, and has been going strong ever since. The town has a remarkable number of writers living and working here. I do not know if tthis is the result of Faulkner living and writing here for so long of if he settled here because it was already a haven for writers. I hope to find this out tomorrow. Oxford is also a hot spot for retired folks. All in all, it is a growing community, but a bit too precious for me.
The drive here was very pleasant and now I can tell everyone that we have been to Oxford and we liked it.
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