So after a very wet start it finally dried out (you have to love hot and humid......!!) at we hit the Natchez Parkway down through Mississippi:
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Stop for fuel just as the local troppers appear to fill with gas and doughnuts. Incidentally, Fuel around these parts is under $2.00 per gallon which is about 38p per litre at current exchange rate......!!
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Into Elvis's birthplace at Tupelo which was very hot and mildly interesting. I've been there a couple of times so I guess that's why i didn't take many pictures but there are some on previous write ups. There was alos a couple of coach groups who rolled up so it was full of shuffling tourists.
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We escaped the tourist trap and headed across country in temos up in the high 30's and found a bit of coll up at Sardis Dam which is one of the largest fresh water lakes in the US .
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Lunchtime was looming as we hadn't had much breakfast and I remember that there was a restaurant in a small town called Panola on the way. Unfortunately it has closed down as many places have but we found this fabulous pizza place in the same town which was almost deserted. Apparently, it's the best place around and folks come 50 miles to grab one of the pizza's or sandwiches and I'm not surprised at it was delicious.
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Peter and Tony had a small pizza.........
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Whilst I had to have a Muffaletta which turned out to be a doorstep of a sandwich.......
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Full of food and fuel, we head off towards Arkansas and Oklahoma
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Stop for fuel just as the local troppers appear to fill with gas and doughnuts. Incidentally, Fuel around these parts is under $2.00 per gallon which is about 38p per litre at current exchange rate......!!
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Into Elvis's birthplace at Tupelo which was very hot and mildly interesting. I've been there a couple of times so I guess that's why i didn't take many pictures but there are some on previous write ups. There was alos a couple of coach groups who rolled up so it was full of shuffling tourists.
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We escaped the tourist trap and headed across country in temos up in the high 30's and found a bit of coll up at Sardis Dam which is one of the largest fresh water lakes in the US .
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Lunchtime was looming as we hadn't had much breakfast and I remember that there was a restaurant in a small town called Panola on the way. Unfortunately it has closed down as many places have but we found this fabulous pizza place in the same town which was almost deserted. Apparently, it's the best place around and folks come 50 miles to grab one of the pizza's or sandwiches and I'm not surprised at it was delicious.
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Peter and Tony had a small pizza.........
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Whilst I had to have a Muffaletta which turned out to be a doorstep of a sandwich.......
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Full of food and fuel, we head off towards Arkansas and Oklahoma
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