So, today we left Nashville...which I think we put up there with one of our favorite visits on this trip so far...Nashville, we will miss you. On our way to Memphis, we stopped at Shiloh National Military Park and Cemetery in Pittsburg Landing, TN. We were able to get a stamp for our National Parks Passport (very exciting) and did a self-guided auto tour of the park. Good stuff.
We actually wound up dipping into Mississippi for a bit...which was unexpected. Though it was fun to get to type it out here. Turns out the south has an incredible amount of Subways. Most of them attached to gas stations. That's all we have to say about that, I think.
Finally we arrived in Memphis at our lovely, fancy-pants renovated La Quinta...seriously, it's quite swankily decorated...and we noticed that they have TWO waffle makers in the breakfast area...score.
After checking in, we drove to downtown Memphis to the...wait for it...Visitor's Center. I had my first look at the Mississippi River ever. At the Visitor's Center, we learned that Memphis seems to be a pretty walkable city, as many of the other places we've gone, which was nice to find out. We left our car there and walked for a ways until we got to a very non-Memphis restaurant for a late lunch/early dinner at the Kooky Canuck's...certainly not my first choice, but they were a stop on the Man Vs. Food show, so we stopped. They have a crazy challenge where you can try to eat a four pound burger or even a six pound burger to get your photo on the wall...super. We did not try the challenge. But I did get to have some fried green tomatoes!
We headed over to Beale Street after eating and listened to some blues at Silky's. Of course, you can take your beers to go down there, so we walked a little bit afterward to scope out some other options for music and dinner for tomorrow. We learned the best place to get barbecue is "the ghetto," so we won't be doing that, but we hear Blues City Cafe is good, so we'll probably just go there and, not unlike Vegas, you can get fancy frozen drinks in fun-shaped cups, so that will also be on the agenda for tomorrow evening.
We have a big day planned for tomorrow, including a visit to Graceland, so we are heading in early tonight.
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