25 years is a lot, right? - Anniversary Trip Day 1 Poverty Point, Lunch at King's Tavern, and Natchez Trace

So Lorna and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary last week with a trip to Asheville, North Carolina, and Townsend, Tennessee. This was a road trip for us, and we took L's car, since it is newer than my outback, and has a lot less miles on it. It did great.

Poverty Point is a large Archaic period mound site in northeastern Louisiana.  

https://www.nps.gov/popo/index.htm

 

 

The largest mound. 

After Poverty Point, it was on to Natchez to start the Natchez Trace.

In Natchez, Mississippi, we had lunch at King's Tavern, as one does before setting off on the Natchez Trace. I guess to really be authentic we should have gotten a  room for the night, but we still had to make Jackson before we stopped. In all seriousness, King's Tavern is awesome and you should make sure to go here if in Natchez.

After lunch, we started the Natchez Trace. Read up on this road a little if you don't know anything about it. It's pretty cool.

You pretty much immediately come to Emerald Mound.

 

You can't see the whole thing, but you can clearly tell that there is a pretty big mound next to me. That's not Emerald Mound. That is one of the good sized mounds on top of Emerald Mound, which covers eight acres.

 That's L's car parked in front of Emerald Mound.

 That's the other extant mound on top of Emerald Mound. There used to be more.

Then to some old parts of the trace.

OK, here's Lorna and me.

This part was deeply incised.

Onward to Jackson for the end of day one.