Corinth and Shiloh

I barely slept. I had checked out the menu for breakfast at Abe's Grill in Corinth, MS the night before. The sun came up and the time had come. Blew off the free breakfast at the hotel and a new road trip day had started...

Slight rain had begun, but it was warm and cozy in Abe's. Hot coffee, homemade biscuits, sawmill gravy, and PORK BRAINS! Find that at Cracker Barrel!

Anyway, it's a tiny little place where you sit at the bar on a stool. All the cookin's going on right in front of you. Owners never let you run out of coffee.

I opted for the pork tenderloin, biscuit, egg, sawmill gravy, and coffee. Too early for the brains. REAL sawmill gravy, not something out of a package. We're talking $5.50. Fabulous. Wife went for the same with bologna instead of tenderloin. Bologna is big in these parts evidently.

We almost couldn't leave. This is so totally my kind of place. We chatted with the owners, drank coffee and then finally pryed ourselves back onto the road.

I drove for 3 hours with a big smile on my face just thinking of that fabulous tenderloin with sawmill gravy and homemade biscuit. 3 hours.

Into the rain and Tennessee we went with a stop at Shiloh National Park. We pretty much had the park to ourselves. Here the Yankees got a little obnoxious with the Rebs.

23,000+ were killed in the span of 2 days. Fairly sobering in the rain with the thunder rumbling, as the battle was fought in the rain.

I'm still thinking about Abe's.