🚙2010 ~Tuesday, May 18, Memphis, Tennessee

Today my husband and I rode to Memphis, Tennessee.

We left between 8:30-9 A.M.  

Stopped in Corinth, MS used the restroom and filled it up with gas.

We arrived in Germantown after stopping to take pictures of a Girl on a horse, which is to honor Germantown Charity Horse Show’s 60th Anniversary 1948-2008, a picture of A Blue Star Marker to honor the Armed Forces, by Germantown Garden Club, and a marker Listing the Mayor's Grove of Germantown from 1920-1994. 

Jockey rider

We then drove to Joe’s Crab Shack located at 7990 Horizon Circle Blvd Memphis, Tennessee. 

I ordered a Caesar salad and Seafood Fun-Do (a creamy fondue filled with shrimp, crawfish, spinach, and saluted mushrooms, topped with bead crumbs, Served with garlic bread for dipping) and a glass of unsweetened tea.

My husband ordered a Caesar salad, and he ate some of the Seafood Fun-do, sweet tea, Crabs in a bucket, with corn on the cob, and new potatoes. It costs 22.00 a bucket. We spent $42.00.

Our Hostest at Joe’s Crab Shack is located at 7990 Horizon Circle Blvd Memphis, Tennessee. 

 Joe’s Crab Shack is located at 7990 Horizon Circle Blvd Memphis, Tennessee. 

Crab legs, corn, and potatoes come in a bucket! This will put a smile on his face over time!

We then took I-40 over to Front Street, we went into the Welcome Center, where we got information about Memphis.

In the Welcome Center, we saw a statue of Elvis Presley and a statue of BB King  

Elvis Presley 

BB King

Monorail to Mud Island along the Mississippi River

We walked to the Monorail and paid $4.00 each to ride to Mud Island. 

The Monorail was located under the bridge that went to the Mississippi River.

(The monorail has a big wheel called a bull wheel. It pulls one continuous loop cable which moves the passenger cabins in opposite directions on separate tracks at the same time.)

We took the escalators down three stories to the ground level. 

We saw an inlaid map of the Mississippi River. I took pictures of the maps and markers of the Mississippi River from beginning to end. 

The river walk is a portrait of Old Man River in Miniature that winds 1,000 miles of Lower Mississippi.

The model portrays important features of the river and its floodplain, with an inlaid street map of each community along its banks. 

The river model is a jigsaw puzzle, made up of 1,746 pre-cast concrete panels, each weighing 8 1/2 tons. An average of 1,200,000 gallons of water flow through the system.

Information panels along the river wall tell the stories of people, places, and events along the lower Mississippi River. 

I took pictures of most of the information panels along the riverbank crossing back and forth over the riverbed. I said, "I have crossed the Mississippi River more times than most people cross in a lifetime. "

We walked over to the flying flags. 

There were flags from Tennessee, Great Britain, Spain, France, North Carolina, and the Confederate States of America each representing their involvement with the Mississippi River. 

Mud Island

Visiting Mud Island

Mississippi River and Bridge

Instead of going back up the Mississippi River, we went around towards the Amphitheater and back up the stairs to the Museum and we talked to one of the curators of the museum. 

I told the curator about how much I liked the River Walk. How we had crossed the Mississippi & Ohio in Paducah, KY, and the bridge in Cape Girado, and how much more interesting it was seeing in all layouts. She told us that the city had asked Bass Pro Show to use the Pyramid building because the building was empty and needed use. She also said that the city was going to help them get moved. 
She was very excited about having a Bass Pro Shop close by. We said goodbye and left the museum. We took the three flights of escalator to the monorail and rode it over to Front Street. 

We exited the Mud Island Monorail Building and walked toward Adams Avenue. We walked down Adams Avenue and I took pictures of the Fire House Museum, the Memphis Police Department (old building), the Shelby County Courthouse, statues and Markers, Calvary Protestant Episcopal church and Marker, St Peter Catholic Church and marker, the Eugene Magevney museum and marker, 1862 Post Office marker, (hiding under a tree), Forrest’s Early Home Marker, Christopher Columbus, statue, markers and Park. 

My husband waited while I walked down Adams Avenue taking pictures, I then met back up with him and we walked down North Main Street taking pictures of old buildings, the train trolley and I stopped a couple of young men to make sure we were headed in the right direction. 

The Trolley

Firehouse Museum 

 Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church

Christopher Columbus Statue

Firehouse Museum 

I took pictures of the Kress Building, Orpheum Theater, Peabody Place, FedEx forum, Gibson’s Music Store & showcase, and the Elvis Presley Plaza and Statue. 

Elvis Presley Plaza and Statue. 

I took several pictures of signs about Beale Street. “There were two types of culture, on Beale Street. The sinners and the saved, you had professionals, and business people and then you had those who worked to have some nightlife fun.”

We walked into the Gibson Music store I took pictures of a white, red, and blue piano a 20-foot guitar, and another 15-foot hard rock blue guitar.

We walked across the street to the Civic Center called the FedEx Forum where my husband took a picture of me sitting on a soccer ball. They had the font of their build lined along the street with soccer balls, basketballs, tennis balls, and baseballs. 

On Beale Street, we saw a statue of WC Handy, and Musicians playing in the Pepsi Pavilion.

We saw the Hard Rock Café, Wet Willies, Ida B. Wells Marker, Brown Zero Blues Club, Pee Wee Saloon Marker, Coyote Ugly Saloon, New Daisy Theater, Nat D. Williams Marker, Rufus Thomas Jr. Marker, Silky Sullivan’s Irish, A Schwab building, Hooks brothers Marker, Kings Palace Café, Benjamin Franklin Booth marker, and scores of other stores, displays, and sites. 

We headed back up North Main Street and we saw Peabody Place, Piggy Wiggly Marker, courtyard Marriott, carriage rides, and many buildings and sites.

Hard Rock Cafe Guitar

Fed-X 

Coyote Ugly

Daisy

Beal Street 

We took the train trolley back to Adams Avenue and walked back to the Welcome Center took a few more pictures and then headed toward Presley Avenue. We drove toward the airport and got turned around. We saw a FedEx airplane taxied off.

We finally found Graceland, my husband let me out of the car and I took pictures of Elvis's marker, the wall around his house, and the gate. Across the street, I took pictures of Elvis's jet from the road. 

We headed back down I-40 by now the work traffic was out so we had quite a long drive back. We finally got off I-40 onto 385 East and traffic was still heavy, we headed toward 72 East, and when we got on 72 East we headed toward Corinth about an hour's drive. This is a long drive because there is nothing to see except the road, and trees not much of anything else.

Wall at Graceland

Elvis Aaron Presley

We finally arrived in Corinth (I said to my husband that I was like the kids and said are we there yet, I was getting hungry after that long walk and it was getting late) we stopped at Burger King, where I ordered a Whopper Junior, diet coke and a slice of Hershey chocolate pie, my husband ordered a whopper, fries, and a piece of the pie. We rode another hour arriving at Best Buy in Florence. My husband went to talk to the Geek Squad about his computer. 

When we arrive home I put on my pajamas, turn on the TV, and crawl into bed. I was asleep in no time. 

The next day I uploaded my pictures to the computer, added a few to FB, and a few to Flickr. Our Internet was too slow to upload all my pictures (580) so I will add them later.