We reluctantly left Baton Rouge, we still had a lot of stuff that we wanted to do there and started our journey north to see the grandkids. We took the north end of the Natchez Trace and spent the night in Tupelo, birthplace of Elvis Presley.
Then on to Florence Ala. where we are camped on the shore of the Tennessee River, we're just driving around a bunch of the back roads seeing what we stumble across. Today (Friday) we found the Alabama Music Hall of Fame, being such big country music fans we decided to pass on it. The waterfall is located in a downtown park in Tuscumbia; there is also a waterwheel, small-scale train, a fountain with music and colored lights for night viewing and tons of ducks and geese waiting to be fed. We got lost for awhile and found a neighborhood called "City One" it was built by the government during WW I to house people that worked at a nitrate factory, the main streets form a big liberty bell if seen from the sky. Most of the homes are still there and in like new shape. Then we found a dead end street that took us to the edge of the cliffs on the north shore of the river for a fantastic view. Then while driving along a little out of the way street that went right along the river we stumbled across a little park where there was a film crew, filming scenes for an up coming movie. They had about 10 trucks filled with equipment and probably 100 people running around and it looked like all they did was film about a minute of a tugboat going by and blowing his horn at some actor on a dock. The name of the movie is "Where (or when) I found the Ocean", well they're sure not going to find it in northern Alabama. When we were here about 8 to 10 years ago we had to hunt for a grocery store, now we have a Super Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, Target, Sears, K-Mart and every type of restaurant that you can think of then some. The Ranger told us that the campground would be bulldozed in October for a Pro Bass Shop and a major sports complex to go with the Trent Jones golf course right across the river, also a 4-1/2 mile river walk that will cover the city end to end.
Tomorrow we head up to Nashville and a resort with WiFi , Cathy will be so happy for the week that we are there. We'll eventually make it back to Michigan, we have to be there for the big baseball playoffs with Nick "the Flamethrower" Squier is pitching.
More when we get it.
