Our wake up call came as expected this morning – the garbage truck followed by the bells – so it gave us a good early start for our drive into Texas today. We hit the interstate and luckily for us we were going out of town. The traffic heading in […]
No further miles on the car however we have done plenty of foot miles today ! We basically roamed the streets today as it seems to be the thing to do (except we weren’t touting tarot readings or playing musical instruments or selling drawings or painted gold and standing like […]
Not a very long drive today – just on 3 hours and we spent some time this morning around Natchez looking at some of the Antebellum homes. The place we stayed, Twin Oaks, is owned by a lady chef, Regina Charboneau, who is actually 7th generation Natchezian. The house is […]
We woke to a hazy but sunny day in Memphis and after breakfast in the Peabody Club Lounge, hit the road again for Natchez. We drove briefly alongside the Mississippi River before heading inland slightly to join highway US 61, known as the “Blues Highway”. A lot of the legends of […]
Our first stop this morning was Graceland. Graceland is split into 2 parts – the actual house and grounds on one side of the road and what I will call “Elvis World” on the other – where you park and enter. As far as queues go, it was much worse than Disneyland ! […]
