This morning we awoke to clear skies for the second time in the last 10 days. Crummy weather, particularly rain, has dogged us across Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and now Tennessee but it broke this morning and that worked out very well because it was a travel day.
We left Cherokee Landing Thousand Trails near Saulsbury and started a leisurely drive east across exclusively rural roads to near Hohenwald which looks to be about 60 miles south of Nashville. It is a nice drive through gradually rising and hilly terrain covered with hardwood forest, massive road cuts through rock and quaint little towns. The speed limit most of the way is 55 or less. The last dozen or so miles were on the Natchez Trace which is appropriate because we ended up pulling into the Natchez Trace Thousand Trails Nature Preserve. Strangely, the exit from the Trace closest to the campground is not the exit to take. If you do, you will pass under the Trace through an underpass with only 11′-0” of headroom, merely 22 inches less than our trailer requires to avoid ripping the roof and air conditioners off our traveling home. We deferred on taking the closest exit choosing instead to continue north until Randy, our GPS unit, told us to exit right on Camp Road. There is no Camp Road, regardless of the idiot ramblings of the electronic liar. We continued a bit further until we got to the place where Meriweather Lewis, half of Lewis and Clark, croaked and was buried. We pulled off and called the campground for directions which did not involve low bridges or imaginary roads and soon we were pulling into our camp spot for the next couple weeks. The lady at the gate said we would not believe how many people have exited the Trace at the wrong exit, all frothy about camping, and almost instantly ripped the top off their expensive vacation lodgings. Bummer.
We did not have the inclination to do any exploring today after we finished setting up our trailer so we don’t know much about this gigantic Thousand Trails facility. We got full hookups but have yet to try out the WiFi. It looks very nice. There are lakes, many amenities, a pretty big store right at the campground entrance and several toothless types proudly displaying Confederate flags at their sites. Troglodytes.
Some of the non-Troglodytes are shown in the photos. Click here