What a full day. It’s 10:30pm and I’m tired. We completed the Trace today. We thoroughly enjoyed it. Several memorable stops. We started out the day with a Crafts shop the ladies really wanted to see. We got there about 30 minutes early. So someone had the brilliant idea we would walk the trail. It felt too much like exercise. We then exited the Trace and using I-20, we went to Vicksburg National Military Park. I took a lot of pictures. The link for pictures is below. One memorable stop was Windsor Ruins, about 10 miles southwest of Port Gibson near Alcorn State University. It was surreal. Go to the link and read more about it. We finished the night with a very nice dinner at a Mexican restaurant walking distance from the hotel. There, we were serenaded with the theme from Pretty Woman, Sante Fe, and some song that you periodically yelled “Tequila.”
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That’s one of the names for the Natchez Trace — “The Devil’s Backbone.” There were some parts of the trace that were almost impassable. It could be, as the nickname says, “devilish.” We did quite a bit of walking on the second day. The others wore me out! We saw a beaver dam (more like a home), AND the beaver!! We went into a “dangerous” cave! We ate jelly beans! And one of the highlights of the day was meeting Per Gustafsson. He was from Sweden and was bicycling the trace, on his way to Nashville. No car, phone, GPS, anything. Just a bike and food. We talked for about half an hour and all about his trips all over the world. He was quite the colorful character. You’ll see a picture of him and the meal he was eating when we met him at the Pharr Mounds stop of the Trace. The link below are the photos for day two. Enjoy!
Well, it’s 1:20am in the morning and I just finishing getting all the pictures off the camera, edited, and uploading to the blog. I started around 10pm. Why did it take so long? Just because the sign in front of the hotel says “High Speed Internet” doesn’t mean it’s high speed. I actually had to call the 800 number to have them reset the access point in the hotel! Anyway, here is day one’s photos at the following link:
Natchez Trace Parkway, here we come. Jo Ann and I are going to spend a leisurely week with two other couples from church driving down the 440 mile Natchez Trace Parkway starting Sunday, April 1st. No plans — no reservations — just jumping in the minivan and going. No children, no beepers, just adult conversation and company. We’ll spend the week stopping at different stops (there are hundreds!) and just enjoying spring and God’s creation. Continue to check out the blog as I will upload pictures to my Flickr account and provide the link to that day’s pictures. I get to try out a new lens for my Canon 20D.