Day Nine

This should be the shortest post I’ve ever written. We did very little today.

Up, breakfast and left the hotel. Headed straight across town to see Tupelo’s only claim to fame.

And here it is: 

Elvis has left the building

That’s right, as mentioned yesterday, Tupelo is the birthplace of Elvis. More specifically this house, that Mr Presley Snr built, is. There is a museum by the house but we didn’t bother with it. Just had a look at the house and that was enough. It also has Elvis’s car.

Caught in a speed trap

After stopping for all of two minutes we left and headed south west. Last night when I googled the route, it looked like we would be back on the Natchez Trace Parkway. Luckily the sat nav had other ideas. We ended up spending the majority of the journey on smaller highways, which was more enjoyable than the parkway or interstates.

You get to see many more weird and wonderful things, like this sure sign that we are in deepest Mississippi.

Yeehaw!!

Soon we were on the Mississippi delta and the temperature got steadily warmer. We stopped to get a drink from a gas station. We didn’t stay long.

In actual fact, we arrived at our destination, Greensville, by 2pm. We managed to check in early. The hotel is ok, but the area has one major downfall which is the water is brown due to filtration through peat or some such thing. Therefore if you fill the sink up it is a light brown colour, but perfectly clean.

We nipped out for lunch before heading back to the hotel for a swim in the outdoor pool! Did bit of sunbathing in the 97° heat. Was great. Ann hid in the shade.

Decided to just eat snacks for tea, so we didn’t have to bother going anywhere. Planning to get up and out early.

Moose watch - low

States visited - 8