After the National Parks Travelers Club
convention we pointed Tricera-Pod (our
Forest River RV) towards Memphis, TN and
T.O. Fuller SP just outside the city. We left
Tricera-Pod in the care of the camp host. Beale Street in Memphis is allot like Bourbon
Street in New Orleans with the exception there is allot of good BBQ and Blues
music. After getting a great catfish
dinner and ribs at Blue City Cafe ( Memphis' most famous BBQ joint-Rendezvous
was closed), but having met some locals from Memphis at the convention they
said Blue City Cafe just as good as the Rendezvous, we decided to give it a
try, we were not disappointed.
After lunch the
weather turned bad for awhile and as we stood under an awning to wait out the
down pour we heard some great blues music coming from BB Kings across the
street from Blue City Cafe. We decided that was the place to be. A group of ten college students were playing
their hearts out and wish we could have
stayed longer to listen to them but we had an appointment to see the march of
the ducks at the famous Peabody Hotel .
Every day at 11am and
5pm the famous Peabody ducks march to and from the main lobby as they have done
for almost 80 years now. We had a front
row seat, or I should say a balcony seat right above the fountain where the
ducks march to and from the roof each day. The big show began on time at 5pm
but the four female and one male ducks had other plans. As they were being
herded to the elevators a few of them got away from the Duck Master and it took
some time before they were gathered up and on their way to the roof top home
for the night.
After all the great
food, drinks and duck march we called it a night. Our stay in the Peabody Hotel
was very nice, although an expensive one, but
it is a once in a life time adventure and it is one more item we can
check off our bucket list.
View of Beale Street
Listening to the Blues on the street
The famous ducks at the Peabody Hotel
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