Day Two On The Natchez Trace

We're in a wonderful park tonight on Lake Tiak-O'Khata in Louisville, Mississippi. It is only $20.00 a night for a full hook-up campsite with cable tv and we have the place pretty much to ourselves. This is the view behind our campsite...

Our day started in Tupelo with a trip to the house where Elvis was born. We had planned a quick stop to snap a picture of the house but it was so nice there, we ended up walking around for a while. It was in a very pretty, park-like setting where you could walk around the grounds and read plaques with interesting stories from his early life. This is the house...

...and a statue of Elvis as a boy...

Then, it was back on the Natchez Trace for another great drive. I really love this parkway. The scenery is beautiful and there are so many interesting stops and nice hikes. With the weather in the 70's today, we were probably outside walking and looking at things more than we were driving. We saw more Indian Mounds...

and took another short hike on the old trace...

This hike brought us to a group of 13 graves for unknown Confederate soldiers...

At one point on today's drive, we came upon a two or three mile section that looked like there may have been a fire but it was actually caused by a tornado that hit the area in April of 2011...

As we get further south, we are finding more foliage on the trees and though they are past peek color they are still very pretty...

Tomorrow will probably be our last day on the trace and the pictures should start looking very different than the ones from today and Friday. As you get deeper into Mississippi, the parkway runs through some swamplands and cypress groves. I'm looking forward to that. After we leave the trace in Natchez, Mississippi, we will be entering Cajun country. That's one part of the country we haven't visited yet so that should be lots of fun.

Well, that's all for tonight. Thanks again for stopping by!