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Am back from a pleasant vacation in the Tennessee hills near the village of Hohenwald. I got to visit the sight of Meriwether Lewis' untimely death at Grinders Inn on the Natchez Trace Parkway. Also was privileged to spend a pleasant hour at Colberts Ferry on the Tennessee River in North Alabama. Am reading a good deal about the history of the trace and these little stops helped me appreciate what those people went through sloggin through America's first big highway. We had it easy on the parkway, no traffic, a gas-saving cruise of about 55 m.p.h. for three or so hours down to Tupelo, where the good coffee brews and where a killdeer in an empty downtown lot implored our faithful hound to follow as she hippity hopped away from the debris pile that perhaps held her nest. A hundred ticks on adult and child alike, but pleasant wading in a mountain stream as well as fishing a pond from a pontoon and nobody wanted to go home.