The Natchez Trace
There is a major hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico called Gustav and today is the 29th of August 08 just for my records. Now Molly and I are fair weather folks so it is too easy for us to get in the camper and head to higher grounds.
According to the weather channel, northern Mississippi and Alabama should provide a safe haven till the storms pass.
So here we are in a beautiful national park along the Natchez Trace Parkway.
The heaviest use of the Old Trace was from 1800 to about 1825 by men, known as "Kaintucks," who floated down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and returned north on foot. But the stories of the Old Trace reach far beyond the early 1800s. They include Mound Builders, Natchez, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians, preachers, bandits, slaves, soldiers, settlers, and even Meriwether Lewis. Nps.
On Friday evening we stopped in Sturgis Mississippi for two nights our weather was fine as the storm raged at a category 4 hurricane in the Gulf. Tornado warnings began to be forecast for that area so we headed on North along the Parkway. Interstates 55 and 59 were contra flow meaning all lanes went north as those are evacuation routes. The parkway was so quite and peaceful with very little traffic. We took about 9 hours to drive 150 miles, stopping to enjoy life and relive history of what must have been hard times in this great land we call America. The trail itself has a long and rich history, filled with brave explorers, dastardly outlaws and daring settlers.
As I drove along in the comfort of the truck, my mind thought of the Indian disputes, bed and breakfast, beer houses, blacksmiths, farmers, lawmen and preachers of the day. Gustavo has done its damage
Please feel free to visit my sites for more about Molly and me.
There is a major hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico called Gustav and today is the 29th of August 08 just for my records. Now Molly and I are fair weather folks so it is too easy for us to get in the camper and head to higher grounds.
According to the weather channel, northern Mississippi and Alabama should provide a safe haven till the storms pass.
So here we are in a beautiful national park along the Natchez Trace Parkway.
The heaviest use of the Old Trace was from 1800 to about 1825 by men, known as "Kaintucks," who floated down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and returned north on foot. But the stories of the Old Trace reach far beyond the early 1800s. They include Mound Builders, Natchez, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians, preachers, bandits, slaves, soldiers, settlers, and even Meriwether Lewis. Nps.
On Friday evening we stopped in Sturgis Mississippi for two nights our weather was fine as the storm raged at a category 4 hurricane in the Gulf. Tornado warnings began to be forecast for that area so we headed on North along the Parkway. Interstates 55 and 59 were contra flow meaning all lanes went north as those are evacuation routes. The parkway was so quite and peaceful with very little traffic. We took about 9 hours to drive 150 miles, stopping to enjoy life and relive history of what must have been hard times in this great land we call America. The trail itself has a long and rich history, filled with brave explorers, dastardly outlaws and daring settlers.
As I drove along in the comfort of the truck, my mind thought of the Indian disputes, bed and breakfast, beer houses, blacksmiths, farmers, lawmen and preachers of the day. Gustavo has done its damage
Please feel free to visit my sites for more about Molly and me.
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