Memphis

Today was a beautiful, fun fun day. We put a total of about 40 miles on the bikes! If you're not new here, you already know that then when we're really getting out of town, we start off by *really* gittin'. Same thing on the way home. No sense farting around in some place we can thoroughly explore over a long weekend, right? So, we shot for Memphis by Sunday, & then figured well, why not try to wake up there?

As you read, it worked, and it turned out that  we ended up getting a second wind and having an amazing time carousing till 1 am.  Beale Street today is basically Bourbon Street 400 miles upriver. Fun!

Today, we got up late, walked down to the river to see a scale model of it that stretches for 5 blocks, and wound up late for our timed ticket at Graceland a short ride away.  Neither of us was a huge Elvis fan, but the King of Rock and Roll left quite a legacy and we spent hours being fascinated and amazed.

We got back at sundown and went out for a catfish dinner at the Flying Fish down the street, then caught some more live music. I also made my way into the Absinthe Room for a meeting with the green fairy.

All good things must come to an end, though, and we're back at the hotel packing up to get out on the road early tomorrow. We have a couple places to visit on our way out of town, then it's on to Mississippi on our way downriver. Someone (Hemingway?) once wrote that the Delta starts in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis. We're right across the street, and ready to work our way through the rest of it.