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Natchez Trace Research Paper

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We had a fast trip down to Mississippi to visit with Dad & Kay. With all the storms blowing through, we managed to evade them all thankfully. We did have sunny skies on Friday & Monday. And the little Miata just hummed along. We took the top down Friday after we left Hopkinsville KY. Getting off the Pennyrile Pkwy and onto I-24 for a bit, traffic became quite heavy heading into Nashville, so we got off the interstate and cut across the countryside to the far edge of Nashville. Once on the southwest side of Nashville and the beginning of the Natchez Trace Parkway we stopped at the infamous Loveless Cafe before driving the Natchez Trace. We thought we'd just sit down, have a meal and drive on.....uh no, 1 1/2 hr wait, the place was packed with people there to eat smoked BBQ sandwiches. In the next building over, they sold sandwiches to go, so that is what we did, sort of. We found some chairs outside in the shade, ate our meal. The Natchez Trace is a destination drive within itself, maintained by the National Park Service, it is a beautiful drive with lots of places to pull off, hike, see waterfalls, vistas, etc.....none of which we did :-) …show more content…

Saturday we were at Dad & Kay's at 11am. We had a nice lunch and a good visit with them, great to see them again. Sunday, storms were moving through in the morning, so we waited to check out till noon, our time. We had a good lunch at a place called Harvey's and a stop by Elvis's birthplace in Tupelo. Later, at a rest stop in Paris TN, evening was coming on and cooler, so top down till we stopped at the Kentucky Dam Village State Park for supper in the lodge overlooking the lake. After that, we were really getting tired, decided not to drive on home, it was near 9pm then, so we stayed the night in Eddyville, KY. We are glad to be back home in the hills of beautiful southern Indiana! Southern Indiana is just as pretty as western KY & TN

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