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| Natchez Trace |
We had heard about the Natchez Trace by friends and we wanted to include it in our way south. The Natchez Trace is a historical journey of 440 miles (715km) linking Nashville Tennessee to Natchez, Mississippi. A simple path created by the Indians there are hundreds of years, it was later used by early European explorers and later the 18th and 19th centuries by explorers and American merchants. The road is lined with historic sites and observation points. It is easy to spend a week, but this was not our goal.
For more details on the Trace, click the following links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natchez_Trace
http://www.nps.gov/natr/index. htm
http://library.thinkquest.org/6270/story_index.html
We had from the first but it was raining and as the weather were forecast for the rest of the week we delayed our departure a day. He was 26 ⁰ F only when we started Sunday morning at 8 o'clock. About an hour later we were out of Nashville and we embarked on the Natchez Trace at Mile 440, with 0 being the mileage in Natchez at the other end. The road has no shoulder and is devoid of any commercial sign. There are mileage posts that allow us to follow the guide. It reminds a lot the way to the intracoastal.
Another interesting fact, there is no stop sign. Most roads that intersect the Natchez Trace overpass borrow and when this is not the case, the stop is in the other direction. There are many small towns along the way but we do not see them. It is as if we were going through a park 440 miles long. There is no paper lying around and it's a clean copy from one end to another. The speed limit is 50 mph hour and it is easy to maintain. At 260
mileage is the city of Tupelo. It has a population much larger than the others and is also well known because it was the birthplace Elvis Presley stayed there until the age of 13 years before moving to Memphis. The small wooden house with 2 bedrooms in which he was born is open to the public. Toyota has also installed its 11th automobile manufacturing in North America in this city. We made a brief stop at the information center but we decided to hit the road. We will return no doubt.
http://www.tupelo.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupelo, _Mississippi
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| Jeff Busby Campground |
http://www.nps.gov/natr/camping.htm
http://www.nps.gov/natr/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&PageID=181507
We left at 8 o'clock the next morning. We had about 800 miles to do to get to Rockport, Texas. Since this is a rather long distance to cover in one day, we stopped in Lafayette, Louisiana, located almost halfway. We were arrested last year and we were familiar with the Bayou Wilderness RV Resort (Http://www.bwrvr.com/). In addition to being close to our road, it offers a service for filling propane tank and motorized it was time for us to refuel. Unless a downpour of rain in the afternoon the next day took place without incident and at 4 o'clock in the afternoon we had covered 400 miles that we had to do to make a Rockport, Texas. We spent a week at Goose Island State Park and we were so appreciated that we wanted to repeat the experience.
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/goose_island/
http://www.pbase.com/merriwolf/110th_camp_goose_island_sp
It is 70 ⁰ F l the afternoon and we sleep the windows open. We booked our land at the water's edge for the rest of the week.
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