Natcez Trace Parkway, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee

B. Hippo overlooks the mighty Mississippi River in Natchez, Mississippi, start of the Natchez Trace

B. Hippo at the gravesite of Merriwether Lewis, explorer (leader of the Corps of Discovery) and governor of the Louisiana Territory. Lewis died alongside the Trace, just south of Nashville, Tennessee.

The Natchez Trace is an old, old road, from near Natchez, MS to just south of Nashville, TN. It was originally a Native American trading route, and later a footpath for Kaintucks (farmers from the Ohio River Valley who floated their harvest south on wooden barges to sell, then travelled home overland). It is now preserved by the National Parks Service and is one of the finest drives in the USA. At least B. Hippo thinks so... beautiful smooth road, lush forest, no trucks, and clear Mississippi sky.