Memphis,
Tennessee We
got to Memphis, Tennessee on May 15, 2003, and stopped at the
Visitor Center downtown on the waterfront. The big feature
there was to go across the street and take a Monorail to a place
named Mud Island, which is just across part of the Mississippi
River.
The Visitor Center
had a reel cool set of circular stairs that went up and up and up,
all the way to the roof, and me and Dexter was gonna go up it, but
it would have took a lot of jumping on Dexter's back, then
climbing up to the next step, then helping him climb up to get all
the way up there, so we decided to go check out the monorail
instead. We couldn't get there, cuz the office for it was
across the street, and the traffic was too busy fer us little guys
to get across without getting smooshed or something like that.
So instead, we
smelled something reel good cooking, so we hiked up
the parking lot and riverfront sidewalk fer a few blocks and they
was having some world Championship Barbeque Cooking Contest that
they have there every year. Well, we got so full eating all
the different things those folks was cooking that we almost
couldn't make it back to the van, but we did, then we was both
thirsty all afternoon. We also managed to bring back a
couple of pieces of barbequed chicken fer the other guys that
didn't go with us.
The old folks and
Ty & Sniffy went on the Monorail to Mud Island, and they had a
reel good time, and even got to see a Riverboat history museum
there. On Mud Island they also had a model of the Mississippi River that
took up about a half mile or more and it showed how the river is
reel crooked and goes all over the place. Sniffy got to sit
on a giant steam engine they had in the museum there, but they had an even
bigger one that was running reel slow to show how a riverboat used
to work, but it was reel dangerous so he didn't get his picture
took on it.
Sparky's
Memphis Photo Album |
Monorail to Mud Island |
Monorail car passing our car |
Monorail car interior |
Ty & Sniffy in monorail car |
Sign for Mud Island |
Outdoor model of Mississippi River |
Memphis Trolley Car |
Sniffy on little steam engine |
You ken click below to find out
more about Mud Island:
Mud
Island Information
After they all got back from Mud
Island, they went and rode on the Memphis Trolley Car, and it went
all around the downtown area and came back to the starting point
again after about an hour, and they had a reel good time, but by
then everybuddy was getting tired and cranky, so we took off fer
West Memphis, which turns out to be in Arkansas.
You ken click below for more
information about Memphis:
Memphis
Visitors Center
To find out more about the Memphis
Trolley, you ken also click below on their website:
Memphis
Trolley Car Information
West Memphis,
Arkansas
West Memphis is
jest across the river from the reel Memphis, so we checked into a
motel there and rested fer a little while before it was time to
eat dinner.
We parked right
next to a genuine Arkansas Pickup truck. It was full of
something fer everybuddy, and even a few things that they might
not even want. Be sure to click on that pitcher to make it
get bigger so you ken try to count all the cool things that the
feller has saved up.
The old folks went
to a good looking restaurant next door to the motel, and asked to
sit in the no-smoking section. That's where the restaurant
guy put them...in one of the 3 non-smoking tables, right in the
middle of the restaurant where all the smoke collects before it
settles down to the floor. They told the guy, "GAK,
it's too smoky in here, we'll see you around," and they left.
They wound up at a
truck stop about 5 miles away, and were seated in the non-smoking
section. In Arkansas, we think that non smoking means,
"No cigar smoking," cuz even the non-smoking sections of
restaurants are pretty smoky. Anyhow, they ate dinner and
got out of there.
The next morning we
checked out of the motel and ate breakfast at a popular fast food
restaurant that serves breakfast, and it was smoky too. But
the worst thing was that a giant mosquito tried to attack
Gloria. You know, one of those mosquitoes that even scares
guys with lots of tattoos to death. Well, Gloria chased him
off about 8 or 7 times and he kept trying to bite her. Then
he landed on Jim's shirt sleeve and Jim swatted him and he was
smooshed jest that quick. We decided that because that was
such a big mosquito, the scorecard would count him as 4
mosquitoes!
We blasted off after breakfast, and
headed fer home without seeing any more tourist stuff, cuz we were
all tired and after 5 weeks on the road everybuddy jest wanted to
get home, so we jest blasted through all kinds of reel cool
tourist traps without even stopping.
Even the van wanted to get home,
after 6,800 miles, and it got in for the 30,000 mile service at
31,268 miles.
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