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I slept like the dead after my first jam-packed day in Memphis and I’m coming back to life slowly. The city below my hotel room window is still fast asleep, but I have an early date with the River and the friend of a friend.

Yesterday, at the end of a laugh-filled and surprise-filled day, my new buddy Diana Threadgill (who will be another day’s tale), suddenly said, “Oh my gosh! You have got to meet my friend, Joe Royer! I am calling him right now!” Then, quicker than I could say, “Serendipity,” Joe and I had made a plan to meet early this morning to get out on the Mississippi River in his sea kayak.

I had a few thoughts of what I might want to cover in Memphis. That’s what I get for thinking I have anything to say about it! Serendipity had other (and of course better) things in mind. There’s a wonderful (I’m told) Mississippi River Museum on Mud Island with an exact scale model of the Lower Mississippi that is 5 blocks long. That was number one on “my list”. It’s also, of course, the home of Elvis Presley, and since I have never been to Graceland, that was number two. Number three was to sample some of the music Memphis is famous for, probably on Beale Street. All of that is well worth doing if you come, and fortunately you can read about them in plenty of other places, because I didn’t do any of that!

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Tsunami on the Mississippi River? Roadtripping with a Raindrop Moment #9

The Not-So-Famous Side of Memphis