Moving On

We had a pretty quiet weekend with a fair amount of rain.  It poured Friday night but it cleared by Saturday morning and did not interfere with Ted’s morning shoot.  He beat his competitor by one shot!  

We went to church in the afternoon and then to D’Casa Mexican restaurant for dinner.  It was excellent!  I had such a bad headache last weekend at a different Mexican restaurant that I didn’t enjoy the meal at all.  We both had two margaritas and I seldom even have one.  This caused me to fall asleep about 8:30, sound asleep on the couch.  

We left before noon Sunday heading south on the Natchez Trace.  We had traveled north earlier in the week and went far enough to have now traveled 1/3 of the Trace, right out of the middle.  To complete we would need to start in Nashville and drive to Colbert Ferry and then start in Natchez, MS and drive to French Town, MS but I doubt that will happen.

It rained hard off and on but when we stopped it wasn’t raining so that worked out fine.  We had dinner at home and fed the last of the carrots to the horses.

We left the next morning heading to Muscle Shoals, AL.  We traveled on Natchez Trace for awhile, and while it is a smooth two lane highway, the small dips and hills coupled with being curvy made Ted decide to get off and take a parallel highway.

We filled up with fuel just a bit down the road from our campground so we are ready to drive to Red Bay and on to Montgomery where we will once again be on an interstate with more facilities.

We left to eat at Rattlesnake Saloon but as I checked them on Yelp we learned they are only open on the weekend.  So we ate at Mamma Jean’s.  Nothing to write home about but Thursday we will try again.  It is a place to go for sure from what people have said.  

We decided to continue our outside sightseeing and visit three waterfalls in the area.  Our closest turned out to be closed!  The waterfall isn’t turned off but there was a gate across the road.  Open on weekends.  So on to Wilson Dam falls.  This was worth the trouble to find it!  We found the dam and the visitor’s viewing stand with a great view of the dam but no falls.  

We decided to leave but on the way out we saw Rockpile Road and decided to see what was there.  I found a directory which showed where we were and up in the corner was an orange line named Waterfall Walk.  We parked the car and took off along the river’s edge.  Sure enough we came upon the falls, in fact, a couple of them.

There was a small angel altar there.  It had a photo of a young girl and it appears that others have added tokens but I have no idea what it represented..

From there we headed to Spring Park and waterfall #3.  This was easiest to find because it was in Spring Park.  They have a lighted dancing waters show in front of the falls but “it was closed” so once again we miss something!

This bronze sculpture was erected in the memory of those that traveled the Trial of Tears.  She touches the cross in memory of those that died on the journey, her tears represent her sorrow, her readiness to go on shows her struggle and perseverance.  The baby represents hope.