Trace continued

After an unlevel and a bit warm and humid night at Jeff Busby campground...

..cooking breakfast in the morning. A couple of weeks ago, Carl had gotten egg rings to be able to cook eggs in a circular form for egg muffins -- the picture shows that we have shored up the induction cooktop with different shims to get it more level so the eggs will have a level base on which to cook! (Remember, our site was quite unlevel, which makes everything in the rig unlevel!)

We stopped at a pull-off to see a portion of the old Natchez Trace...

...it is still visible through the woods...

... packed down and solid (it looks like a creek at this point as there had been a little bit of rain).

We also stopped by the Tennessee River -- I had shown Carl a blog post from when Dwayne and I drove the Parkway in 2014, and he wanted to take a picture in the same spot (https://trekincartwrights.blogspot.com/2014/11/tennessee-river.html).

Thursday was a sunnier day...

... and we were about 100 miles further north...

Crossing the state border from Alabama into Tennessee

... the trees are a lot less leafed out...

... as we continue further north (and maybe some higher elevation too).

We drove on the parkway to the Meriwether Lewis Memorial site -- there we stopped to see the exhibit and were given a very interesting talk by the volunteer who is currently serving there -- he was quite engaging and made the history interesting. He and his wife have been fulltime RVers for just over a year now -- currently, she is still working, but is scheduled to retire by the end of May - and they are looking forward to being able to move campgrounds on days other than the weekends!

Here are pictures of some of the information in the exhibit area:

The monument is a column that is broken off, identifying a life cut short.

From the Meriwether Lewis exhibit, we headed out to the Thousand Trails Natchez Trace campground for our campsite for the evening.

There was a free campground at the Meriwether Lewis area of the Parkway, but after our experience the previous night -- not really able to find a site, and not level at all -- in addition to having no hookups so no water or electricity -- we decided to go to the Thousand Trails campground. We've never been to this one, and the reviews online are really bad, but we figured we'd have electricity and water, and be able to dump. It turns out we got full hookups (electricity, water, and sewer hookups), although only 30A, so we needed to be careful about our electricity usage. The site also was not very level, as you can possibly see that Gracie's front driver's side tire is way off the ground. But we enjoyed having electricity and air conditioning since that promised cold front has not yet arrived!

We enjoyed our journey up the Natchez Trace Parkway -- it was a bit narrow and no shoulders, but no commercial vehicles, and pretty light traffic. We actually met two 18-wheelers on Thursday -- not sure what they were doing on the parkway, but other than that, it was just passenger vehicles and a few RVs. It was a beautiful season of the year to be on the parkway - so we're glad we did it!