Tupelo, Mississippi is the birthplace of Elvis Presley, and you better be Taking Care of Business (TCB) if you visit here!
The Father of the Blues, Robert Johnson, is buried in a hardscrabble cemetery under an ancient pecan tree.
Natchez Trace Parkway is one of the longest National Parks, and probably the least well known. Running a total of 440 miles, the Trace is a thin corridor of protected land that stretches from Nashville Tennessee to Natchez Mississippi.
Traveling for a week on the Natchez Trace Parkway was one of the best trips we’ve taken in the RV. We had only a loose plan, no reservations, and all the time in the world to enjoy ourselves. We drove about half of the Trace, some 200 miles out of its total 444, from Nashville to Tupelo. And we took about a thousand pictures.
Tupelo is a good sized town with a big traffic problem. There are only a couple of main roads and they all seem to bottleneck at every cross street. We picked a campground that was right off the Natchez Trace and right at the beginning of the big shopping district, Barnes Crossing. So each time we headed into town there was a lot of traffic to contend with.
The Natchez Trace Parkway continues to be a delight as we cross into Mississippi. I’m loving this long drive vacation. The Trace is beautiful at every turn, and the scenery is getting greener the farther south we go.