From – Nashville, TN
To – Memphis, TN
Miles Driven – 213
Today’s Photos - http://www.flickr.com/photos/32017704@N03/sets/72157613133699935/
We’re a bit behind with the blog at the moment so I’m going to make this a
quickie, catch up edition. It helps that, whilst we did quite a lot, not much of it was particularly earth-shattering. For example, we drove from Nashville to Memphis and Bridget turned 10,000 which was celebrated with choruses of Happy Birthday and For She’s A Jolly Good Fellow and a trio of hip-hip-hooray’s. It was fun if you were there but it hardly makes for Pulitzer Prize winning journalism. In similar vein (i.e. stuff that is dull to read about but entertained us immensely), we went Walking in Memphis (sing-a-long-a-blog) and found the largest dog run in Northern America, met Kate’s hair twin (a fellow carrot top), talked to a woman from Blackburn (just 20 miles from my home town) and Kate went on a crazy tough, muddy cross-country bike ride.
Are you still awake? Good, because now it gets a bit more interesting. Not a
lot, but a bit. Kate’s Memphis research had unearthed a couple of drive-in movie theatres which has been an ambition since I was first exposed to Grease as a kid. The choice of films was pretty pap but we settled on watching Cadillac Records which got one thumb up for being vaguely Memphis related and another thumb up for not being Paul Blart, Mall Cop. To be fair, the film quality didn’t really matter (which is lucky as it was just OK) because the experience was awesome. From the huge screen to the corn-dog vending hut, tuning into the sound on our car radio, sneaking Molly in the back of the car and having to put the engine on every 10 minutes to stave off hypothermia…a really unique Americana experience. That said, we’ll probably chose Regal next time as my old man’s bladder can’t handle 2 ½ hours without going potty.
Tomorrow we’re donning matching polyester jumpsuits to visit Graceland before changing into something more sombre to see where MLK’s dream ended.
To – Memphis, TN
Miles Driven – 213
Today’s Photos - http://www.flickr.com/photos/32017704@N03/sets/72157613133699935/
We’re a bit behind with the blog at the moment so I’m going to make this a
quickie, catch up edition. It helps that, whilst we did quite a lot, not much of it was particularly earth-shattering. For example, we drove from Nashville to Memphis and Bridget turned 10,000 which was celebrated with choruses of Happy Birthday and For She’s A Jolly Good Fellow and a trio of hip-hip-hooray’s. It was fun if you were there but it hardly makes for Pulitzer Prize winning journalism. In similar vein (i.e. stuff that is dull to read about but entertained us immensely), we went Walking in Memphis (sing-a-long-a-blog) and found the largest dog run in Northern America, met Kate’s hair twin (a fellow carrot top), talked to a woman from Blackburn (just 20 miles from my home town) and Kate went on a crazy tough, muddy cross-country bike ride.Are you still awake? Good, because now it gets a bit more interesting. Not a
lot, but a bit. Kate’s Memphis research had unearthed a couple of drive-in movie theatres which has been an ambition since I was first exposed to Grease as a kid. The choice of films was pretty pap but we settled on watching Cadillac Records which got one thumb up for being vaguely Memphis related and another thumb up for not being Paul Blart, Mall Cop. To be fair, the film quality didn’t really matter (which is lucky as it was just OK) because the experience was awesome. From the huge screen to the corn-dog vending hut, tuning into the sound on our car radio, sneaking Molly in the back of the car and having to put the engine on every 10 minutes to stave off hypothermia…a really unique Americana experience. That said, we’ll probably chose Regal next time as my old man’s bladder can’t handle 2 ½ hours without going potty.Tomorrow we’re donning matching polyester jumpsuits to visit Graceland before changing into something more sombre to see where MLK’s dream ended.
PS If you’re wondering where the descriptive food entries are today, breakfast was cereal, lunch was a sub and dinner was soup. Not every day can be cordon blue I guess…
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