Monthly Archives: June 2014

WORD OF THE MONTH – Potkopinu!

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Hike The Natchez Trace Trail At MP17

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Found this section of the trail about a mile east of the trace at mp17, follow the signs.  Not sure how to pronounce the word but it is unique.  If you like these pictures please click on the following phrase and see all of them.

IMG_0461Here I am with a severe lean do to where I was placing the camera.  Rotten logs tend to not be very sturdy.  The bank behind me leads up to the level of the surrounding terrain, and I am on a ridge line as well.  Heavy rain and thousands of feet churned up the ground and it washed away to leave the gully I am walking in.

 

IMG_0450Many Americans at the time figured that the difficulties of communication and isolation would cause the Mississippi Valley settlements to form a separate nation.  Congress, hoping to hold the frontier, established a Post Route from Nashville to Natchez in 1800.

IMG_0439A bitter comment from then Secratary Of State “The passage of mail from Natchez is as tedious as from Europe when westerly winds prevail”.  President Jefferson soon after ordered the army to clear out the trail and make it a road.

 

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Post Riders helped bind the vast, turbulent frontier to the Republic carrying newpapers, dispatches, and mail.

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Their day passed by the mid-1830’s, when steamboats started running from Natchez to Pittsburgh, robbed the Trace of it’s usefulness as a main post road.

 

IMG_0452I kept hearing how bad it was back then for the Kaintucks, having walked a few feet in their tracks, I at least understand how bad it could have been.  I like to think that I had it bad in VietNam but for the Kaintucks the bandits along the trace were just as bad, and the heat and humidity were equally as bad.

If you would like please click here to see the whole album.  Please leave any comments as I would like to know how you like the pictures and I apologize for putting all the history on here but I thought it would be appropriate for this summer.

Sunday Car Ride In Tennessee

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A Quiet Day Trip Through The Country Side

We found this sign while on an afternoon ride just north of the Tennessee Alabama state line south of Nashville, TN.  I was not going to publish, in some respects though we have to remember in order to not repeat the past.

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A friend that stopped by to chirp at us while taking a rest break at one of the many pull outs on the Natchez Trace Parkway.IMG_0364

Next is a Magnolia blossom on a magnolia tree close to our compound where we reside for the next couple of months.IMG_0127

I had to include this scenery photo of a stream and road in Tennessee close to the Meriwether Lewis Burial Site.

IMG_0098Finally here is a photo of our puppy Pepper taking a dip in the pond behind our house at the Springs.  We have tried and it is impossible to keep him out of it due to the heat and humidity we get here in Mississippi.  It helps that it does not take long for him to dry off, so as to not smell up the house to awfully bad.  This afternoon he gets a bath, but the pond is still close and it is going to get hot and humid the rest of the week.

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