Day 5-Tupelo to Canto, Mississippi

Day 5, Easter Sunday, March 23 Tupelo to Canton
We took off from our campsite and headed to Wal-Mart for a couple of things and then at Betsy’s request we had breakfast at IHOP. She would have preferred Cracker Barrel, but IHOP was next to Wal-Mart. We got back on The Trace and headed for our first point of interest which was a Chickasaw Village site. With our trusty and nearly worn out map at hand we knew we were close so naturally we paid attention to the road signs on the right side of the road which is where all the other 987 sign’s had been during the trip. As we whizzed by at 50 mph there was our sign on the left! Not a promising start but we did an off and on again at the next exit and got back to the site.
I’ve been meaning to mention that I was surprised at the amount of farming we saw in the Lawrenceburg, TN area. Big fields. And we continue to see small cattle operations. Traffic on The Trace as it ran through Tupelo was somewhat heavy this morning, but there was one stretch later in the day where we went about twenty minutes where we didn’t see another soul. Kind of spooky.
We are seeing more and more leaves on the trees, and the grass is getting longer and greener as we move south. We see dogwood everywhere and my favorite, the redbud. We were getting tired so decided to stop at a private campground just outside Canton, MS. Basically it’s a big field with a bunch of RV sites. There are a bunch of huge Class A’s sitting out here but no one is home. The bathhouse is about a mile away and I have yet to see a trash container. Oh well, they can’t all be Paradise. At night we listen to the radio, because our TV antenna doesn’t seem to bring in a good signal. Also discovered that I can’t get our furnace lit now that we’re on the road. Luckily I packed a little space heater that we plug in. If it’s real cold we pull the curtain that closes off the “bedroom” and that seems to hold the heat in. jamie
The pictures are 1. Ye Ol' Starship Avion at the highest point in Mississippi overlooking the Mississippi River Valley and 2. "On the Trace"