Multi-State Trip Leg 6

04/19/2013 Friday Brandon finished washing and waxing the coach at 1 PM and we hooked up the toad and drove to Davy Crockett State Park  just outside Laweranceburg TN which is a few miles from the Natchez Trace Parkway. We began to set up in site 19 in campground 1 when I found that the water hydrant for the site had a hole in the water pipe. I contacted the host and they tried to do a temporary fix but was unable to, so the host gave me permission to put a “Y” on site 18 water hydrant until they can fix the bad hydrant. We went to the restaurant in the park. It was okay - I gave it a 2 on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the best. I checked out the other sites in campground 1 and decided that sites 12, 17-20 are about the only ones that can handle our size MH. The park is really pretty and we are backed up to Shoal Creek which is about 1 foot deep with water gurgling over some rocks. Very peaceful.

04/20/2013 Saturday We had a cold night as the heater ran off and on all night. We had breakfast and drove to Walmart to get a few items and then drove down the Natchez Trace Parkway and visited several sites, including Meriwether Lewis Campground and the Meriwether Lewis memorial where he died and was buried. The campground is free and has 33 sites, none with hookups but all were nice, mostly level and most were large enough for our MH. There are water hydrants scattered around the CG but not to hookup to. If we are in the area again we will probably use this campground if we are traveling the Trace. All the restrooms were new. We drove on down the parkway and stopped at the Fall Hollow waterfall. Then it was on to a Tobacco Farm location. From here we drove down two miles of the old trace road and then got back on the highway and drove to Jackson Falls. It was down a long paved path and was beautiful. We drove back up the parkway and exited to drive across some of the local roads, stopping in Ethridge to eat a late lunch at The Red Rooster. There are about 300 old order Amish families living in this area and we saw a few of them riding their buggies down the road. We would have got some of their bread but most had already closed there roadside stands because it was mid afternoon.We returned to the campground and read for the remainder of the day.

04/21/2013 Sunday It was rather cold again tonight. We had blueberry pancakes for breakfast and then we walked a trail along the Shoal Creek looking for Crockett Falls. A little over 1.5 miles of climbing up and down hills we finally found it and the covered bridge that was on our park map. We decided to return by the road and not the trail. Finally after 4.2 miles we got back to the camp site and had lunch and then watched the Nascar Race. Later we called and talked to Jackson (our oldest grandson) and wished him a Happy 7th Birthday and then we relaxed and read until supper.

04/22/2013 Monday After breakfast we drove into Lawenceburg to use the WiFi at McDonalds and then to Walmart to get a few groceries followed by a stop at a indoor flea market. The cell phone sign is not very strong  in the CG so my "hotspot" is not working very good. We returned to the CG and I cooked some chicken legs on the grill. Later we relaxed and read for awhile before I make a campfire later in the day. I put away some of our things to get a head start on leaving tomorrow. The new residential refrigerator and new microwave/convection that Brannon installed is working great. It is so nice to have water and ice in the door like at home and food that is not spoiled.

04/23/2013 Tuesday After breakfast we finished packing up, dumped the holding tanks and headed for Nashville about 8:45AM. If was a nice drive down the remainder of the Natchez Trace Parkway, very little traffic and we saw 24 wild turkeys out by the roadside