I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 810. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about plantations and

civil rights, Indian mounds and music history, Helen Keller and Elvis as we drive the Natchez Trace Parkway. Welcome the Amateur Traveler I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about the

Natchez Trace Parkway. I'd like to welcome to show Kristen Luna from camels and chocolate.com who has come to

talk to us about neither camels nor chocolate but about a road trip in the

American South. Kristen welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me.

Glad to finally be a guest.

And Kristen and I have known each other for so long,

we have no idea how long we've known each other for.

But she started travel blogging in 2007 so it was probably

sometime after that and we're talking today about the Natchez Trace and Kristen what is the Natchez Trace and what's your connection to it?

So the Natchez Trace Parkway is 444 miles of Federal Parkway that travels from Tennessee and it is the fact that I am a southerner who was looking for more ways to travel safely the past few years

when I was stuck at home and there was this iconic route that the American Indians took centuries

ago that I had never done.

So my husband and I started exploring it in chunks by car

over the past three years, but it is a road trip

that anyone can take if they have a week or 10 days or however long they're

willing to dedicate to it. And I have driven it but a lot faster than that and

that the whole amount so you could drive it but you've really explored it which is what I'm going to

enjoy about this particular episode but why should someone do the Natchez Trace?

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