Comfort Suites - Memphis / Thousand Oaks Cove

... In 1940, Bellman Edward Pembroke, a former circus animal trainer, offered to help with delivering the ducks to the fountain each day and taught them the now-famous Peabody Duck March. Mr. Pembroke became the Peabody Duckmaster, serving in that capacity for 50 years until his retirement in 1991. Today, The Peabody Ducks are led by Duckmaster Jason Sensat.

The original ducks have long since gone, but after 75 years, the marble fountain in the hotel lobby is still ...

... being tall.

We then went to B.B. King's old bar and company and had a "Lucille" named after his guitar. The drink was blue. This bar was real cool, all jaded and worn in. Posters plastered the walls with the likes of Ann Peebles was on the wall ( I can't stand the rainnnnnn), Muddy Waters (Garrett and I scooped up a couple vinyls from a farmer's market a couple years ago that we used to jam to)

Christa and I's favorite song ...

...Richard Powney has left the country.

I dropped him off at Dulles airport yesterday and did my usual thing of legging it as quick as I could. I don't like airports. You always have to say goodbye to people that you don't want to have to say goodbye to.

Anyway, his stay has been brilliant and it's flown by. I think that's a good thing. We've had lots of beers, booze and brewskies and the odd bit of food here and there too ...

... proceeds go to them), there were so many busses going in and out and it was a weekday. We did the budget tour and looked over the fence, ha, ha. There were many other travellers doing the same. From the front of the property you could see the main house, the yard, entry way and stables. Across the street they had Elvis's planes, yep both of them, also on display. Totally cool.
Memphis, Tennessee, United States bekandjesse

... it for profit rather than ideology.
Later in the day we went to a museum called the Pink Palace Museum , once owned by a cotton magnate, Than by a guy who started the Piggy Wiggly grocery Chain. Had some interesting exhibits. A miniature Circus built in 1930-1955 by a man, miniature railroads, a medical museum, history exhibit. Had a replica of the 1st store owned by the man who ...

... worthwhile tales are set: the local pub.

We’re from Wisconsin; our state mantra is "Roll out the Barrel" and we are the home of the nation’s second-largest brewing company. Like baseball, drinking is our national pastime, and we take it seriously. So seriously, in fact, that University of Wisconsin students have been banned from spring break drinking contests in Florida and Mexico, for fear they would sweep the competition ...

... Street where we sat in a booth that Tom Cruise sat in in The Firm. After lunch Mel and I went into the Autozone baseball field which was right down the road from our hotel to take some photos. We also went to the National Civil Rights Museum just outside of Memphis at the Lorraine Motel, which is where Martin Luther King Jnr wass assasinated. The museum was closed on the day that we went but ...

... my Soul City Stew and Sirloin. The steak came sliced (weird) but it was cooked a perfect medium and was very tasty. I know it was because Sydney (the non steak lover) loved it so much she had seconds... and thirds... and fourths... you get the picture. Kai and Sydney wish Madenn and Rob were here with us enjoying the trip and the good eats. We're happy we made our goal city of Memphis. It was tiring, long, windy ...

... behind us. When we reached the ground floor, a notice on the doors said emergency only, these doors are alarmed. We returned back upstairs only to find that the door we came through was locked. We initially panicked and thought we would have to burst through the alarmed doors. Brian checked a lower floor, no joy. Hazel ran at a door on the next floor and this opened! Had to go out the same way we came in only 10 minutes later than we would have been. Onto ...

... history that sports many blues clubs and Southern restaurants, such as Blues City Café & Band Box, where many enjoyed lunch.

Monday evening’s concert was held in the large FedEx Forum, which opened in September 2004 as the home of the Memphis Grizzlies, a team of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference of the NBA. Prior to the concert, the VIP reception in the Opus Restaurant of the FedEx Forum hosted community, civic, cultural, and religious leaders from the ...