SUN June 13
Left Clarksville and the Special Forces McLeans and headed for the Nashville airport to drop Marla off for her flight back to Phoenix and Sun City West while I head down the Natchez Trace to Tupelo MS to see the Tupelo National Battlefield and oh by the way Tupelo is the birthplace of Elvis.
The drive was pretty but long, 130 miles of tall trees and mowed grass road shoulders broken every now and again by fields of corn and sometimes hay fields. The Trace is one of the very early “highways” in the U.S. opened to support commerce between Nashville and the South down toward New Orleans.
Oh yes, Meriwether Lewis, he of Lewis and Clark, died and is buried on the Natchez Trace and I stopped there.
Stayed at a very nice RV park.
MON morning I headed off to the Tupelo National Battlefield Park and was really disappointed. I don’t know where I heard of the Park making me wanting to visit but it was only 2 cannon, a couple of stone monuments, a flag pole and an information board, all in a Park about a quarter of a city block totally.
Next was off to Elvis Presley’s birthplace and then down to Vicksburg MS.
MS roads really have me slowing down, they aren’t level and whip the trailer tossing clothes off hangers and moving other things around if they aren’t held down.
Something interesting about MS license plates; most states have special plates and that includes license plates for their universities. But MS has a plate that has the LSU logo on it. Why would one state give special attention to another state and a football rival?
Left Clarksville and the Special Forces McLeans and headed for the Nashville airport to drop Marla off for her flight back to Phoenix and Sun City West while I head down the Natchez Trace to Tupelo MS to see the Tupelo National Battlefield and oh by the way Tupelo is the birthplace of Elvis.
The drive was pretty but long, 130 miles of tall trees and mowed grass road shoulders broken every now and again by fields of corn and sometimes hay fields. The Trace is one of the very early “highways” in the U.S. opened to support commerce between Nashville and the South down toward New Orleans.
Oh yes, Meriwether Lewis, he of Lewis and Clark, died and is buried on the Natchez Trace and I stopped there.
Stayed at a very nice RV park.
MON morning I headed off to the Tupelo National Battlefield Park and was really disappointed. I don’t know where I heard of the Park making me wanting to visit but it was only 2 cannon, a couple of stone monuments, a flag pole and an information board, all in a Park about a quarter of a city block totally.
Next was off to Elvis Presley’s birthplace and then down to Vicksburg MS.
MS roads really have me slowing down, they aren’t level and whip the trailer tossing clothes off hangers and moving other things around if they aren’t held down.
Something interesting about MS license plates; most states have special plates and that includes license plates for their universities. But MS has a plate that has the LSU logo on it. Why would one state give special attention to another state and a football rival?
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