Honky Tonk & Rock and Roll

The other way around. Rock and Roll in Memphis and Honky-Tonk in Nashville. Tuesday we drove to Memphis and camped right on the Mighty Mississippi River. Late afternoon we payed Beale Street a visit. Just three blocks with a lot of bars and some live music. The tour guide book said one must see the "pyramid". We figured it would house a museum or something important. Far wrong. It was a Brass Pro Shop, not quite finished, yet. But it looked nice from across the river.

Walking up and down the "famous" Beale Street did not take long. Like I said, only three blocks long. The best musicians were on the street, where we lingered a bit to listen.

This guy was pretty good.

That's the only concession for "The King" so NO, we did not visit Graceland.

Beale Street at dusk.

Memphis (Beale Street) is like Key West. They blocked the roads off and police was present everywhere. And we did see a lot of cameras all over the place. Gives you an idea what it was like. And I would not got into the parking garage where we were parked by myself at night time. Bummer.

Wednesday we came to Nashville and set up right next to The Music Village and The Grand ol' Opry. Needless to say that we did not take a tour, let alone spent $21 just to PARK the truck there. Instead we went for dinner. And that was AWESOME; elk patties, frog legs, gator bites, wild hog sausages and wild game stew with campfire potatoes. Yummy.

Yup - that's already in Nashville.

10 miles from our base is Germantown and Downtown. Of course we had to make a loop through

this little area. Nothing fancy. 

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I would say that Nashville has the best downtown I have seen so far. Broadway with its old red brick buildings and not far behind some modern skyscrapers. And they all blend perfectly together. Well done.

In the front is the old Customs House, a red brick church left of it and a very modern tower.

A lot of bars and Honky-Tonk. Happy hour starts in most places at 11 (that's AM) and all of them had live bands playing.We had lunch in one of them.

Party everywhere

I can't believe that Key West hadn't picked up on that idea. Pretty cool, having a "designated driver", all he does is steer, everybody else pedals to propel this "rolling bar" down the street, neat - cruising around town AND drinking. Back to base we are just doing - nothing. Lunch has spoiled dinner for us. If we should decide to go eat, I guess it will be same outfit as yesterday. And I can get my fixin' on "the wild stuff".

Ta-ta