Tupelo MS

Tupelo, MS is really a lovely city in the northeast area. Elvis was born here. There are many churches in the South, but none more energized than the group preparing this cross for Easter. Isn't this pretty?
Here are a couple of pix of the Elvis Presley birthplace, and the car used when the family packed up and moved to Memphis.

We liked the porch swing and noted that the Presley house was bigger than ours. The car is a 39 Plymouth. Apparently the Presley family came upon hard times and had to skedaddle out of town after nightfall. The City of Tupelo takes their native son seriously and has erected guitars along the streets, named streets, and even moved Elvis' childhood church to the homestead area.

In the picture below we are poised at the zero mile marker of the Natchez Trace. We began this 444 mile trek on Tuesday and reached Tupelo on Thursday. Tomorrow we'll drive back to the Trace and continue where we left off. The Trace, upgraded over the years, has a 10,000 year history as a travel route from Nashville to Natchez. As America expanded westward, folks would ship goods down the Mississippi on flat wooden barges, sell the barge for lumber, and walk back to Nashville. Now, it's a two lane road, no traffic lights and no stop signs. No commercial development and the speed limit is 50 mph. I have never driven so relaxed. We'll get to Nashville this week and then travel up into Kentucky, Pennsylvania and home. We heard most of the snow is gone, so home might be liveable.