History

Stretching from Natchez, Mississippi, on the Mississippi River, northeast to Nashville, Tennessee, the Natchez Trace Parkway is a wonderful road maintained by the National Park Service.

Based on an ancient trail, its earliest users were buffalo, then Native Americans and then white settlers. Today it is a paved highway closed to commercial vehicles but open to other vehicles and bikers. There is no separate bike trail, but the traffic speed limit is 45. My wife, Barbara, and I drove some of it in 2020.

The Görlitz Synagogue in Görlitz, Saxony, Germany, has been restored, and in July 2021 it reopened to the public as Cultural Forum Görlitz Synagogue (Otto-Müller-Straße 3, Görlitz; phone +49 3581 672410, www.synagoge-goerlitz.de [in German only]).

8 days, 7 nights in FRANCE, June 4-11, 2022. Highlights: Drive from Paris to Normandy for Le Mémorial de Caen war museum, Merville Gun Battery/D-Day ceremony at Normandy American Cemetery/Airborne Museum in Sainte-Mère-Église/Battle of Normandy Museum/en route to Limoges, Coudehard-Montormel Memorial/preserved-village memorial of Oradour-sur-Glane. $2,995 ppdo. Single supp., $800.