Traveling on the Natchez Trace Parkway

Traveling on the Natchez Trace Parkway

In our efforts to avoid interstates, we found ourselves meandering along country roads through small, rural southern towns basically heading east trying to stay in areas warm enough for camping. As usual though, we stumbled upon a rather unique National Park site that we just couldn’t resist… the Natchez Trace Parkway.

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Visiting the Birthplace of Kermit the Frog

Visiting the Birthplace of Kermit the Frog

We prefer backroads to interstates, small towns to cities, and quirky museums and roadside oddities. That’s how we found ourselves in Leland, Mississippi, ‘birthplace of the frog’, only a couple of hundred miles out of our way.

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