Odyssey South

Here is Graham and some buddies the day they deparated for the Odyssey South - this was Tuesday, September 4th.

Graham came home this past Tuesday, September 18th, he will share below where he went.

(Graham's trip camera did not yield good pics, so he is hunting the internet for some)

Well hi everybody, this is Graham.

Well I don't know if everyone knows this but every year for the first two weeks of school the Junior High does a trip called the Odyssey. This year we followd the Mississippi all the way down to the gulf coast town of Ocean Springs, Mississippi.

There were 46 students and we drove down in a touring bus. Every day that we were on the bus we would work on a folder with work that related as much as it could to the Mississippi, Civil Rights and Marine Biology (the main themes for this Oddysey).

The second day on the trip we went to the historic home of Ulysses S. Grant, who was a president and one of the U.S's first four star generals.



On day three we visited the Mark Twain Museum, because we were reading the book "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". That night we camped at the Trail of Tears National Park.



The next day we went to Memphis, Tennesse, and why would we go to Tennesse? To visit the Civil Rights Museum that is attached to the motel that Martin Luther King Jr. was staying at when he was shot. On the way out of town we drove by Graceland - just to catch of glimpse of it.

Two days later we arrived at our destination -- the Gulf Coast Research Lab where we would spent the next six days learning about the gulf of mexico and animal and plant life in the gulf coast.

After those six wonderful days we were back on the bus and went to Birmingham, Alabama were we visited the Civil Rights Institute.

The next day we went to Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky.

The last campsite we stayd at was Jellystone National Park (you know, Yogi bear and freinds) in Goodfeild Illinois.

All in all it was a good trip.