red bud's tripp'n

we checked it all out, went over to the crimson moon to people watch from the deck



where she gotta butterpecan&peach ice cream next door & pbr for me

everyone was happy



the trip home







got home had a text from an old room mate i hadn't seen in 4 or 5 yrs. he was in helen heading my way

we caught up till about mednight

yea 3:30 am sucked, out the door and headed to work

Great stuff-

I'm way overdue

Takes a pretty good report to get me to spend a couple of evenings wading through 59 pages Nice job...I really enjoyed it. If you ever head North out of Memphis...up into the LBL & Western KY...give me a shout.

Ride safe..........John

thanks

thanks, thats a big complement,

i had big plans to go to little strugis (or what ever they're calling it these days) & or hog rock this year but didn't make it. Hopeing to get up there before i head back to jawja for good

Not sure what's up with either of those events now....heard conflicting reports on Little Sturgis. Some said it was cancelled, others said just greatly reduced in scale. Both...especially Hog Rock, have been pretty wild in the past.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

went to little sturgis a few times (clothing optinial) a freind went this year weather was perfect but rally is really down sized from what it was (he said)

i've heard hog rock was wilder (&thats doing something) but i just couldn't get it together this year, & that's a shame being this close, i've rode the ferry and been to cave in a rock

Well...I live less than an hour from either location & have never been to either. I have been told that the city of Sturgis, KY got involved due to violence...in particular against women. And yes, Hawg Rock had the rep of being wilder...at least as far as nekkidness was concerned. I am OK with that kind of wildness

I enjoy a good rally & certainly have nothing against ...but having run a few bars in my time, I am not much on large crowds of drunks. A couple of weeks ago at Barber is about my style.

little strugis was definenty wild (can u say neckid water slide etc..)the few times i was there

didn't see or hear of any viloence to women

i'd heard there was a big court case between sturgis sd & little sturgis

had some friends that went this yr, said it was smaller but still fun

& for once the weather was good as in not to hot

one of the first guys i met here dschoettle. He's moving to arkansaw, killer riding, out in the country etc...

went by friday to help him move. We got done quicker than i thought. Drywaller from work had mentioned he had a tent set up at arlington bbq this week end. Not sure what that was all about but being 2 miles away i better check it out.

Arlington bbq, wasn't a shop but a bbq all weekend contest.

with live music and a live football game



dancing girls



teams had different booths and tents



the motor sticking outa this car is a grill with a whole pig on it



alittle bit of every thing

wanta see all i can see while in memphis, mud island was on the list, took the wife when she was out here & it was closed. Wednesday is the last day of this year.

I'm think' n an hr at the island then onto the rock & roll museum

away i go



ran by the pink palace, it was a private home built by the guy who invented the modern grocery store, till he lost his ass in the stock market. or something like that the green sign said



it was taken over by some goverment something another and is now a museum with an imax theater. Plan to see this someday todays not the day.

on to the bardog for brunch. ya can win this for a 1$ on holloween night but cya gotta be there to win



hey that's a cool bike in the right hand corner

da big belly & onto mudisland

wait how about alittle down town



somewhere in this rr i showed ya'll a picture of a tent city downtown that had been here for awhile but apprently that'd been booted out



rode the monorail over (if your gonna do, do it all)

on top the museum, they have a replica of the mississippi river including citys, sand barges, islands, etc...........

this is looking down from above (which is always the best way to look down)

you enter the musuem and they start from back in the indian days



they have alot of models of rafts from back when folks build rafts & floated thier goods down the river to new orleans. Sold thier goods & then sold the raft for timber & started the long walk home.

There was displays of gamblers, river workers, priates & this guy



plaque was missing but i knew who he was

no you ff 's thats not colonel sanders i'm pretty sure thats samuel clemmens aka mark twain

then there was the paddle boat as you walked tru looking at exhibits, you realized you were on a steamboat of yester year

The paddle boats were replaced by the railroads for people transportation, so they move to barges to move material up and down the river.

You walk onto the bridge ( i thinks thats what they call it)



the screen is looks like your actually going up the river

as you leave there, they tell ya about the civil war on the mississippi & ya walk into an ironclad battle ship



as you wak out you come out on the deck of another ship firing on the ironclad you just left

You can't talk about the mississippi with out talking about the music that came from the delta

starting with the juke joints



rock & roll (&elvis)




dixie land jazz

i'm a bigger fan of the blues but that's just me

there was more, fish, floods etc....

i went to see the river copy



from here my feet are in west memphis on the arkansaw side you can see I40 bridge, I55 bridge, the rail road bridge (if i remember right this was the first bridge over the lower mississippi in the early 1900s) the gray part is memphis with streets shown. I was amazed at the accuracy of the whole thing. You can even see thrash in the river .

The water level copied the actual drought conditions of the river that day.

Also i kept looking at the scarecrow in the back ground thinking i knew him.

As i said to my self.

Self you think you know a scarecrow it hit me.

That's Acmed, the dead teroist.

"SILENCE , I KILL YOU"




here's beale street landing under construction



this a picture from may/june? of last year from the other side. Look on the right you can see the circler thingy almost under water

a man made rainbow



a real live barge

i was planning on spending an hour or so there & then onto the rock & roll museum. Instead i blew most of the afternoon there. When they locked the doors i went to the confederate park.

Where so many 1000 people watched the union defeat the confedrates in a short afternoon, leaving the union in charge of memphis for the rest of the war.

The veiw from the park



cannons

squirrels posed for me





yea, i'm pretty sure they didn't know i was thinking about ma maws squirrel & gravy :dgwhile i took thier picture

they ignored me, as i took their picture, but when this guy showed up they scattered



headed home before the sun went down

passed this on the way, it was alittle outta place