However, some trips do stand out more than others for one reason or another. I’ve lost count of how many times we’ve gone to Natchez for a festival, a pilgrimage, to celebrate a milestone, or simply to getaway. Louisiana to Mississippi rural highways, byways, and parkways give credence to the travel credo always take the scenic route.Ĭell phone images of interest along country roads less traveled capture the scene and the herd. Impressive architecture, antiques shops, mint julep and tiny biscuit lunches at the Carriage House, refreshing cocktail hours, and laid back evenings seal the travel to Natchez deal. With a few months still to go until vacation time, reaching back into the trip report archives is my tried and true cure for the are we there yet blues. Jaunting over to this small Mississippi town for a quick getaway from it all is right up our alley. Natchez, Mississippi is a pack a bag, set the GPS, and let’s get out of town for a day or weekend destination that offers everything from festivals to shopping to art to dining to distinctive mixology to antiquing to gourmet cooking classes. I hope you have a fetching Friday and inspired weekend.Īuthor Places In The Home Posted on JJCategories summer Tags travel Leave a comment on Fetching Friday: Summer Wanderlust From the Trip Report Archives: Natchez, Mississippi Summer wanderlust travel guides us to destinations known or pondered, sights seen and those soon to behold. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” Whispering Pines Motel – Estes Park, Colorado “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” “I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.” “When we get to a place where no one knows us, we become most ourselves.” Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail.” And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.” We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves and we travel, next to find ourselves. Summer wanderlust grabs hold and sparks a strong desire to hit the holiday road in order to satisfy the wanderlust within, discover roads less traveled, and revel in new adventures while finding ourselves along the way.
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