Thursday, 8 June – Natchez Trace Preserve, Hohenwald, TN 38462

Sun shine again this morning.  No messing around with too many cups of tea and board meetings today.  We are on the road by 10 am heading east through the tiny town of Pocohontas (cute), then the lovely little town of Shiloh with it’s lovely houses on huge sections and the much larger town of Savannah, where we stop for supplies at Walmart (suffering withdrawals, haven’t been for five days).

We are taking the scenic route today, especially researched and put into action, the drive was lovely and the traffic was light.  Along the Natchez Trace Parkway, which truly seems untouched by the rat race - the limited signage is relevant just to the towns and parks bordering the road, there are few ‘intersections’ or placed where you can depart or join the parkway so you need to think ahead.

Natchez Trace Parkway

The only bit of bother was when the GPS wanted to take us under an 11 foot bridge!  Noooo!  We need 12’6” - so we did a block and drove further along the Parkway where we could get off to the west and therefore we were on the correct side heading south to get to the Natchez Trace Wilderness Preserve.  Our tiki tour did compensate though as we saw a deer crossing the road in front of us!

11 foot bridge!!

This is a huge complex, 830 acres and 670 sites, but a bit disappointing in that all the lakeside sites seem to be taken with permanent residents, most of which are not in residence, at least this week.  Never mind, we found a reasonable site, water and 30 amp, backing onto bush, so we will have afternoon shade if it gets too hot.  We have a concrete patio, a picnic table and a grill.  There is a swimming pool over yonder, but we are too far away really to utilise it.  The negative  here for us, is the very limited cell coverage, none at our site, and no internet, although the Thousand Trails book advertises it.  Sorry, all you guys back home who are worried about us, we are good, just can’t tell you about it! Actually I've found that if you try the internet at odd times during the day or night sometimes I can get on it.

Once we set up, C&C & I go for a wander around Phase 2 of the camp, where we are situated.  There are a multitude of full timers here, totally ensconced, with picket fences, huge patios etc. and they have bagsed all the lovely waterfront sites.  Golf carts are a plenty here and they all come out for a drive by late afternoon/evening.