7/9/2009...Today we headed south from Cave City, KY, through Nashville, TN. We got on the beautiful and historic Natchez Trace Parkway. The Parkway follows the trail from Natchez, Mississippi, to Nashville. It was an Indian trail and at one time much of it belonged to the Chickasaws. We saw Meriwether Lewis' grave. He died in 1809 at the tender age of 35, under suspicious circumstances while traveling on the Natchez Trace from New Orleans to Philadelphia to make some corrections/additions to his famous trip out west.
Natchez Trace was also used by Mississippi boatmen, who would travel down the Mississippi, and then sell or scrap their boats, then would travel back north on the Trace.
We arrived in Red Bay, Alabama, at the Tiffin Motorhome repair facility, to have some minor repairs done on our rig. It is SO hot here; very difficult to take after the cooling breezes of Pennsylvania. We should find out tomorrow when our repairs will be done. I'm sure we'll be here over the weekend. There's not much to do here. Then it's off to Texas!
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