The Natchez Trace Parkway: Perfect for Slow Cruising

crashed and were killed. Now, as the story goes, if you park at night in a certain part of the woods near the trace, and wait in the dark, eventually you’ll see a single headlight winding through the trees. The light stops at a spot about a hundred feet away where the couple supposedly crashed and died.

According to our narrators, they’d seen the light quite a few times. When they turned on their own headlights or tried to get closer, the mysterious light disappeared. However, it would return within a short time.

We didn’t see any mysterious lights floating through the woods that night. I suppose it would have been creepy if we had.

A slow ride to Mississippi.

I took a ride on the trace two years ago on my way to meet some friends in Mississippi. The day before, I’d raced through twisty Deal’s Gap in North Carolina and was ready for some casual riding. I had plenty of time to reach my destination, so the “trace pace” suited me fine.

Along they way, I remembered that clear morning in 1965.

It was nice to be back.

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