Memphis Tn..........
Land of the delta blues, great BBQ and a week with Audrey and Charlene. We all met up in Memphis for a conference and fund raiser for St. Jude Children's Hospital and to do some local site seeing. T. O. Fuller State Park was our home for the week that was so close to downtown it was easy to visit all parts of the city in minutes. The park and campground was CCC built for and by African Americans, it was the first campground east of the Mississippi River for African Americans.
The park has the Chucalissa Indian Village Museum that can be accessed for free if your camping in the state park. A few hiking trails and a swimming pool also make this park worth the visit. Our camp site was long, paved and shaded, we had 50 amp and water, bathhouse was clean with a laundry and FREE ice. The only problems was it was so HOT when we where there, but that's summertime on the river. We will stay here again if we ever come back this way.
We had fun going to Graceland and taking pictures, Beale street, walking the bridge across the Mississippi River to Arkansas and of course the Bass Pro shop in the Pyramid. We found the BBQ at Central BBQ the best we had while in town as we ate there a few times and it very close to the Lorraine Hotel where MLK was killed and now the home of the National Civil Rights Museum.
The St. Jude Hospital complex is huge and still building on to serve the children who need them.
As our trip came to an end and Audrey and Charlene where on the plane to fly back home, we took a side trip down to Mississippi to access the river and watch some of the big barges that transport goods on the river. The next day we packed up and headed for home with plenty of great memories of our time in Memphis.
The park has the Chucalissa Indian Village Museum that can be accessed for free if your camping in the state park. A few hiking trails and a swimming pool also make this park worth the visit. Our camp site was long, paved and shaded, we had 50 amp and water, bathhouse was clean with a laundry and FREE ice. The only problems was it was so HOT when we where there, but that's summertime on the river. We will stay here again if we ever come back this way.
We had fun going to Graceland and taking pictures, Beale street, walking the bridge across the Mississippi River to Arkansas and of course the Bass Pro shop in the Pyramid. We found the BBQ at Central BBQ the best we had while in town as we ate there a few times and it very close to the Lorraine Hotel where MLK was killed and now the home of the National Civil Rights Museum.
The St. Jude Hospital complex is huge and still building on to serve the children who need them.
As our trip came to an end and Audrey and Charlene where on the plane to fly back home, we took a side trip down to Mississippi to access the river and watch some of the big barges that transport goods on the river. The next day we packed up and headed for home with plenty of great memories of our time in Memphis.
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