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Travel Blogs from Memphis

Gospel, Blues and Southern Fried Chicken

A travel blog entry by lizandgazwalker

An interesting start to our stay in Memphis, pulled over by an extremely large African American Policeman as we drove down a one way street the wrong way. Lights and siren blaring. He was very understanding and did not book us. We then stumbled across The Historic First Baptist Beale Choir performing their Christmas Concert. They invited us into their church, we were the ...

Walking in Memphis

A travel blog entry by dullicksontour

... online that gave us 50% off our tickets so that paid for our lunch in their diner and a souvenir magnet for me! We spent the afternoon at Mud Island which is in the middle of the Mississippi river. It gives great views and it was lovely to walk around in the sun as it started to warm up a bit. They have a scale version of the Mississippi there which you can cross over. It kept us entertained! There was lots of grasshoppers on the path that would hop up to a metre when you got close ...

All shook up

A travel blog entry by msinclair1956

... br> 21/8/12

The Cadillac arrives, its not old which is a bit of a shame
but a pink limo, quite nice, then head for dinner, the driver picked up another
couple and when we get to the restaurant they ask me to join them they are from
Kansas City Missouri, young lovely couple.
Dinner was average, had catfish again the only thing on the menu, deep
fried too – tasteless and the salad was average too, but the whole joint is
again, decked out ...

Day 9 - Memphis, Tennessee

A travel blog entry by kiannmac

... another walk around the stalls and then headed back up to Beale Street for a few more cold ones.

After a couple of beers we headed back towards the trolley car, but not before calling into Memphis Music and purchasing a guitar for Aaron. This ain't no ordinary guitar it's made of an old gasoline can! It's a unique piece that will be well loved I'm sure. He was given a free bottleneck slide and I know he's chomping at the bit to play it. We had a laugh ...

Blues, Brews and BBQ's

A travel blog entry by sean_kirsty2012

... the scene of a Man Vs Food battle, Rondezvous BBQ House. A full rack of ribs were ordered and half were swiftly dispatched....the second half was a bit more if a struggle due to a tactical blunder involving hot sauce!! The following day we hit the bus with the locals and headed to the home of the King...Graceland!! BTW the Presley's have a pretty sweet little gig going on there....hundreds probably thousands of ...

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