We left Boston on a gorgeous sunny day and landed in Memphis around 3:30, Central Time Zone. Picked up our little red Kia rental car and headed to Clarksdale Mississippi, home to many historical Blues sites and several blues museums. We were very fortunate to stay at the Delta Digs one of three renovated studio apartment rentals right in downtown …
Biscuits!
Wednesday morning, back to Yazoo Pass for breakfast where I had the first of what I expect will be MANY biscuits. God I love biscuits and Yazoo Pass did not disappoint! After breakfast we walked to the Delta Blues Museum . What a delight! We were there for quite awhile enjoying the many exhibits. No photography allowed unfortunately. We wandered …
Cruisin’ the Delta
Biscuits, beer, fried catfish, and many other food and beverage sins motivated us to visit the Arkansas Delta Heritage Trail this morning. We had read that the Visitor Center rents bicycles and sure enough, these little babies were just waiting for us Quite the “interesting” rides! My cruiser was a tad on the big side so it was a rather …
Sweating at the Biscuit
Friday was pretty much all Biscuit. After breakfast from some basics we’d picked up at the grocery store, we headed off to the Crossroads where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the devil. Sure enough, there is a big sign in the middle of a traffic rotary. Rather uninviting but we just had to see it. We were back …
My biscuit’s gettin soggy in the Mississippi rain
Sounds like a good blues song, right? Hurricane Nate is travelling up the coast and sending some staggering humidity and thunderstorms our way. Had another quick breakfast at Yazoo Pass and then headed for the Biscuit knowing that we would need to be a bit flexible with plans today. There were a couple of panel discussions at the Orpheum in …
Good-bye Clarksdale, Hello Memphis
Had breakfast at the Bluesberry cafe and enjoyed their Sunday blues show featuring Watermelon Slim Time to head for Memphis, but we really enjoyed Clarksdale. They do a nice job of welcoming the tourists into their music clubs and restuarants – great music and food in a friendly atmosphere. Uneventful trip to Memphis where we are staying at the Sleep …
Sweating our socks off in Memphis
So we have this map with bike stickers. I think that’s maybe an extra bit of motivation to seek out riding opportunities wherever we are visiting. The amount of beer we’ve been drinking is a factor as well! We drove to Shelby Farms Park this morning and rented bikes to ride their Greenway. I got a nice 3 speed cruiser …
Museums are cool!
Got to Sun Studio this morning in time for the first tour of the day at 10AM. That was quickly filled and it looked like a bus had just pulled in as we finished so glad we were there bright and early. 10AM may not seem like bright and early but our schedule seems to have shifted into late night …