Rise and shine and on our way after a good breakfast at the Comfort Inn and Suites. We found our location was fairly close to an entrance to the Natchez Trace on the south side of the metro area. There are 4 cities here - Muscle Shoals, Florence, Tuscumbia and Sheffield. They market themselves as the Shoals and seem to be doing a good job. I noticed when we went into the Rosenbaum House Museum yesterday you could buy a 1-2-or 3-day pass and visit about 10 different museums/attractions across the area. Anyway, we returned to the Trace about mile 320 missing 20 miles of the Trace and the crossing of the Tennessee River - it is very wide here due to The TVA dams. We added some new flowers to our list from yesterday - buttercups, lyre leaved sage, crimson clover, and were still seeing dogwood and the unique Rhododendron from yesterday. One interesting spot we passed was Pharr Mounds - a large flat field with numerous small Indian mounds scattered across it - built between 1400 and 1600. We also crossed the Tennessee -Tombigbee Waterway. This stretch of river, dredged by the Corp of Engineers, provides a navigable waterway between the Gulf of Mexico and the TN river. In the distance we could see one of the locks. We stopped for lunch at the main Visitor Center near Tupelo. Nice movie and some displays. Ben bought a really nice T-shirt but alas non in sizes for Jane. She did find the 2 Nevada Barr mysteries that were set on the Trace. Could not resist buying one even though had been read years ago. Just as good the second time around!
After a rest we headed off the Trace towards Tupelo. Tupelo is a nice city with a population about 37,000. We drove through the downtown area which had been recently updated - looked nice. We were surprised that the area did not seem rundown at all. Interesting the Elvis Presley sites had signage just like the national battlefields. Needless to say, the Elvis Presley stuff was much more popular. We did manage to miss it! Did take a photo of the Tupelo Battlefield which did not even have 1 parking spot!
Found our hotel for the night - another Comfort Inn - and Ben had a nap and Jane found restaurants and began reading her Nevada Barr book.
We selected Harvey's for our dinner. The choices were limited - at least half if not 3/4 of the restaurants in Tupelo were closed on Sunday - and many on Monday too. Harvey's however was a great choice. Ben had prime rib sandwich and Jane had a crab cake topped salad with lots of veggies. We also split some fried mushrooms and a gooey bread pudding. Harvey's was a remodeled 1940's building divided into several dining rooms. The doors were very attractive.
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