Madison Memphis

The Alvrez's are in the USA!

As most of you know, we have sold our farm, left our jobs, and put our most prized possesions into a 10x15 storage unit. We are embarking on a journey to.....well, because we want to. We need a reason? Okay, to celebrate life, love, youth and the ...

This blog provides a daily narrative of a seventeen day cross-country motorcycle trip undertaken by three friends from Connecticut. With a year of planning completed, this trip represented for us a true 'once-in-a-lifetime' opportunity to see this great ...

... city was a major centre of the slave train, and a stop on the Underground Railrowd. Occupied during the Civil War, Memphis suffered some decline during reconstruction, but soon saw it's cotton based economy up and running again. Cotton made Memphis ...

... Subway - well most of us did - and Brian smashed down a large portion of Chinese and we hit the road. We got into Memphis at around 4 ish and despite first impressions found the Comfort Inn Downtown to be quite a nice motel. We scored a nice big corner ...

So the last 2 days of my Memphis Trip were the volunteer days. The night before I met the the other 34 volunteers(had drinks with some at Stax) and Bullseye, who would make an appearance at Target House later. August 5th: So after breakfast we ...

I arrived yesterday from Minneapolis to Madison. I need to thank April and Chester (plus Mike) for a great stay in Minneapolis, I had a lot of fun and a lot of good food :-) Madison is a very liberal town for being USA. Artsy hippie gayfriendly, the way I ...

... and sounded so much like him it was amazing. This guy has quite a fan club in Wisconsin: two bus loads from Madison, Wisconsin had come on a trip to Memphis to hear him sing in this club on Beale Street. DAY 11-We are heading out of Memphis, not ...

... . Just had brisket at Rendevous and today I've been to both the sun studios and graceland. In other words I've gotten my Memphis experience. I was warned by some people along my travelling this summer that this is a rough town and I should keep safe etc, ...