Helena, MS to Huntsville, Alabama
On the road in Mississippi! The trees are changing, long vine like sticks drip from every branch, it looks swampy. Stopped in Oxford for a bite to eat, colorful little place with ferns hanging from every second story balcony. Visited the Faulkner residence. Ate Shipley’s donuts on our way out of town. Cruised to Tupelo, toured Elvis Presley’s birth place and museum. Jumped on to Natchez Trace Parkway, it parallels a very old trail used by natives and traders to get from the Mississippi River near the coast diagonally through the state up to today’s Nashville Tennessee. We drove this beautiful parkway to the border of Alabama, stopping to hike through sloughs and along the old trace on our way. There was even a small cemetery for unknown civil war victims. In Alabama we waded through a crazy storm that ended in a rainbow at sunset, landed in Huntsville’s Monte Sano State Park after dark, pulled into our secluded forest to hear a barred owl hoot us to sleep.
