Memphis, Tennessee

Rock & Roll Country

After about 250 miles drive from Nashville we arrived in the afternoon near Memphis. We had looked if we could find a campground near Memphis, but we came up with zilch. Wahid had found a campground near Germantown, still a good few miles out. But it was not that expensive and further more there was a bus stop. For some reason not all the sites had water and it took us quite some time to find a site with water. But the sites were nothing more then some grass with a hook-up. It had been raining a lot the previous days, so while we attempted to park up we got stuck in the mud. We put some blocks under the back wheels, but it was all in vain. The wheels just duck in even more. Luckily someone came by and informed the owner of the campground and he brought in some heavy duty material to pull us out. I thought it was quite funny, because I fingered that someone would have been able to pull us out, but Wahid was a tat upset.

The next morning we found out that the bus would not stop in the area were we were parked up, so we had to cycle a couple of miles to the nearest bus stop that would take us to downtown. Wahid was hurry so our first stop was the Peabody Place were we had a bite to eat, after that we went to Beale Street, this was the street were once up a time all the big Blues & Soul artist came to perform. It is very touristy, but we did get into the B.B. King bar. There was a band playing and we decided to stop for a while. During the performance a couple of guys who called them self the Beale Street Flippers did a little performance. They did flips, one of them did 20 flips in one go. It was pretty amazing to see this. Unfortunately we could not stay that long since we had a bus to catch. So back to our campground near Germantown.