Tupelo, Mississippi

Here I am in Tupelo, Mississippi, birthplace of Elvis and name dropped in many songs. It was only about 70 miles from Muscle Shoals, so it was an easy drive. The GPS took me via a road called the Nachez Trace parkway. A stated in previous posts, a parkway is a simple road through a national park. The meaning of the word trace was more interesting , apparently it means a road or a path and this path or trace has been used for a long time, well before the civil war, but it was during this time that the trace became a major highway for troops.

This afternoon I did some washing so I have some clean clothes to travel home in, explored Tupelo a bit, saw a very overlong goods train go across the road, it must have 10 minutes to pass, had two engines in front and three at the back. Tupelo is just another once small, now expanded town with acres and acres of shopping malls and car dealers. I then visited Elvis's birth home, it is very small and would have been in his day, a fair way from town. Very modest beginnings for some. Hence Elvis's parents always lived at Graceland as he promised his mum he would put her in a big house. Graceland is not huge, but compared to this place, it is.

Pics

The Parkway Road

Elvis's Birthplace home