USA 2023 : Part 4 : Memphis and the Blues Highway

Friday 21 to Tuesday 25 April

There's a lot to see in Memphis.

Elvis's Graceland

Sun Studios 

Rock and Soul Museum 

Bass Pro Pyramid - a huge sporting goods store - almost a theme park of shopping.

Since we have done all these things before we decided to chill a bit every morning instead.

They've had ducks in the fountain at the Peabody Hotel for 70 years. Twice daily the ducks are walked through the hotel and over the road. We just went for the cocktails.

We found an awesome restaurant called Flight. Everything is available in flights of 3. Wines, whiskeys and all the food. An amazing concept for tasting and sharing. I don't know why more places don't do this! We loved it so much we went twice. 

There was a Corvette competition on with hundreds of cars lining the streets.

We enjoyed the music on Beale St, but don't try  the food. It was awful even at BB King's for Sunday Brunch. Places in Memphis are a bit down at heel with lots of boarded up buildings in the downtown area. Unlike Nashville which feels prosperous and happening.

On Monday we hit the " Old Route 61" Blues Highway down to Clarksdale and the famous Crossroads.

We stayed over at the quirky Shack Up Inn. All the rooms are original, salvedged houses and gins and furnished with old, repurposed stuff. Very cool.

 Hopson Commissary is a live music bar on the same property.

On Tuesday we visited the Grammy Museum in Cleveland, MS and the BB King Museum in Indianola.

Hal and Mal's in Jackson, MS had live jazz and good, local food.

On any road trip in the South, you have to have a breakfast at a Waffle House and pick up snacks at a Piggly Wiggly Grocery Store.