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... I was hungry and it was still open so I went in. As I walked through the doorway it was reminiscent of the circus and I was the main attraction. Everyone in this small restaurant stopped and watched me enter, walk across the room and take a seat. I was the only white person (perhaps for miles)…doobeedoo. The food was awesome though. That was my first traditional New Orleans meal and it was tasty (yes, I’m in Memphis, but veggie + bbq don ...

... both Ben Harper's Burn One Down.That blows my mind. I believe we have a lotttt in common.

"Now my choice is what i choose to do and if I'm causing no harm why should it bother you?
Your choice is who you choose to be and if you're causing no harm then you're alright with me"

I think I'm attaching a picture I just took of Ryan filming while Christa is driving. He went to film school and sets his camera uptop the bed ...

... I'm in Memphis, I thought it would be nice to visit the family again in Tyler, Texas for a couple of nights. On my way to Denver. Where I have to be on Thursday. I'll leave that with you....



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This entry takes the standard of blogs to new depths of mediocrity.
And by, 'takes', I mean, 'plummets'.
Two sides of a triangle are better than one.

... 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

... s in 1951 by Ike Turner (Rocket 88). Memphis just oozes history and Talent.
In the Afternoon we went to the Civil Rights Museum which is the Lorraine motel where Dr King was killed on the balcony in 1964. The museum is a time line of Black history in America. Although only James Earl Ray was the only one convicted, He had to have some help to pull off, The museums idea is that he ...

... picnic and viewing areas and we stopped at a site on a headland overlooking the sea for lunch. You can often see whales out in the ocean but it may be too late in the season for that. The trees up here weren't yet coloured and as several people had told us that they had had such a good summer, the cold autumn weather had not yet started the fall colours. Heading south down the west coast ...

... of the Memphis pyramid and bridges crossing the Mississippi river. A quick stop at the Memphis Visitor centre to grab some information, and for photo opportunities with Elvis & B.B King! We had to walk across the bridge to the Mud River Island as the monorail that goes over there wasn't operational. Mud River Island has a scale model of the Mississippi river that you can walk along or walk in - of course Fred & the kids opted to walk in it! After we'd followed the fake river along to ...

... between the performers and the audience.

It was a fitting ending to an enormously successful tour, which saw the Choir sing to rave reviews for nearly 50,000 people at nine concerts in seven different cities over a two-week period. With the strains of “God Be With You Till We Meet Again” ringing in their ears, Choir and Orchestra members returned to Salt Lake City happy to be done with touring for now but looking forward as ever to their next experiences on the road in 2009!

... c**tainly remains alive and well in parts of the South; from a retired lawy** from Rhode Island (now a church eld** in Charleston) "you can't do anything, they don't want help, or jobs and we reward them for having more and more children. They just like disord** and chaos", or from a historic house guide in Georgia "they're born with their hand out", like it's some sort of genetic thing - you know, like frizzy hair and juju lips. They do at least low** their voices when they say it ...

... him guilty of involuntary manslaughter and of conspiring with McVeigh. Nichols escaped the death penalty because the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict on whether he was planning an attack "with the intent to kill." Nearly six months later Nichols was sentenced by a federal judge to spend the rest of his life in prison. The beautiful memorial, not exactly what I would call a tourist attraction, is an intensely sobering place to be. Designed by Butzer Design ...