And we are going to Graceland.
What else to do in Memphis? Well, we decided to do one of the more obvious things, and take in some Americana. We arrived at about 4:45, certain that it would be closing (flashbacks of the Henry Ford museum…) shortly, and we’d be left taking pictures of the exterior from [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Here’s Mud in Your Island
Jul 24
Thanks to Matt’s and Caryn’s suggestion, we stopped at Mud Island today, where there is a scale model of the Mississippi river that you can walk along (and in!).
It’s about half a mile long, and the water gets to about a foot deep or so in places. It is one of our favorite places we’ve [...]
We re-crossed the Mighty Mississipp’ today,
and are (therefore) back in the east. Only this time, we did it much further south, on I-40 at the border between Arkansas and Tennessee.
The Pious South
Jul 24
Hospitality
Jul 24
Last night we stayed with Matt and Caryn and their family. Matt and Caryn lived in Belmont eleven years ago, where we attended the same church. At the time, we both had children one year old, about the only two kids in the church. They left for Arkansas about eleven years ago, where Caryn’s family [...]
Cough, Cough
Jul 23
Clara has had a cough for essentially our entire trip. At the beginning, it seemed like the tail end of the cold she had had. And at times, it seemed to be getting better. But we finally had to admit that it wasn’t really clearing up, so we went to a clinic in downtown Conway, [...]
It Looked Innocent Enough…
Jul 23
The ice cream cone sign, visible from the interstate, drew us in.
There was also a fresh food market inside, with produce and everything. Very nice! Who would have dreamed that this placid exterior hid a fast food restaurant inside?
Well, there we were, and it wasn’t McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, Arby’s, Hardees, etc. It was Braum’s. [...]
Lake Eufaula
Jul 23
Our Kansas
Jul 23
Headed to Conway, Arkansas today. over the Ozark mountains. I-40 in this part of Oklahoma is more rolling (although this picture doesn’t show it well) and feels more New England-like.
Days Inn Confused
Jul 22
for so long it’s not true.
Here we are at the Days Inn in Shawnee, Oklahoma for the night. Faithful readers will know that we often stay at Comfort Inn, but there was none here, so we had to pick an alternative.
We picked a restaurant for dinner from TomTom, hoping to find a local steak house [...]
