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Gospel, Blues and Southern Fried Chicken

A travel blog entry by lizandgazwalker

... then are marched back the same way. It has been happening since the 1930's after a resident bought some ducks back to the hotel as a practical joke. There is always a crowd and today we had the added bonus of a children's choir singing Christmas Carols.
Lunch was at Gus's Restaurant where southern fried chicken is the speciality and it was delicious with a nice cold beer. ...

Overdo report

A travel blog entry by wickedtravelers

... have a pretty stone exterior, others, like ours, are shingled. It has a little bedroom, attached bath, living room, makeshift kitchen with hot plate, microwave and mini-fridge, a screened porch and a little picnic table and fire pit outside. All for $65! You really can’t beat it. Everything was also extremely clean which is great. The only drawback was our slightly lumpy bed.

Today, we were kind of slow—comparatively. We took a nice little hike by Big ...

The trip begins with some stuttering...

A travel blog entry by thomas.clark

... the ramp. So from different airports and for different reasons we both missed the transatlantic flight from Atlanta and had to spend another night stateside.

Delta had to put us both up in hotels last night, and we have made arrangements to get up to JFK for the flight to Accra. The result of this change is that
1. We'll be flying over part of the Sabbath, something I try very hard to avoid ...

Between Beale Street and Oblivion

A travel blog entry by thedirtysouth

... tour today and Dave hasn't stopped ranting about the sausage gravy we were served for breakfast (video attached). We're gonna head down to the hearkbreak pool for a quick swim and some sunshine...
We plan on going out in Beale Street tonight so hopefully that should provide some entertaining photos and videos which we'll post when we get a better connection.

Anyhoo, until then, y'all be good.

Sian ...

Elvis has left the building

A travel blog entry by wavetotheworld

... of whom work at JD HQ.

We joined a small tour group lead by a very proud and engaged employee (they give all staff a litre of JD every Friday) with the most amazing southern drawl. She told us about the man behind the brand (a 4ft 10" womanising batchelor with a temper, who got gangrene and died after kicking his safe), the history of the company (recently sold to a investment consortium after generations of being ...