We woke up this morning around 7:30 - we are trying to get in a little bit of a routine. Our plan is going to be to visit these cities in the early morning and afternoon then drive on to the next place. We didn't end up getting out of our host's house until about 9:00am. By the time Kevin and I wright in our journals, blog, shower, clean-up, and then re-pack the car at least 2 hours pass. We went to the Civil Right Museum this morning. The museum is actually in the Lorraine Hotel where Martin Luther got shot. When we arrived we watched a documentary about the civil rights movement and Martin's life. He was a good video - it actually got me a little teary eyed watching how terrible the people were treated. We spent about 2 hours after that in the museum taking an audio tour.
We road out bikes down to Beale street after the museum to look around and find some live music to listen to while we eat. We found this little bar called Blues Spot with a live band. Dave, we didn't go to Rendezvous because of location - but the BBQ place to go to in Memphis is called Tops BBQ - for future reference. Memphis and Nashville are pretty similar places. I think Nashville is bigger into the music scene than Memphis; however Broadway and Beale street are very similar. After Beale street we ended up going to Graceland - we didn't end up paying 30.o0 bucks to actually go onto the plantation, but we saw the house from a far and signed the wall the surrounded the plantation.
Last night we didn't arrive in New Orleans till about 9:00pm. The drive in to New Orleans is really beautiful. Its this long bridge surrounded by the bayou. WHen i say long I'm talking about 100 miles. We walked down to the Bourbon street got a quick bit to eat and then went to a place called Pat O'Brians. I really enjoyed this place as there were two piano players and then a man in the middle that had these what seemed to be thimbles on his hand (but they were metal), and he was literally playing a serving board. These three band members would take any request you could think of and play it - it was actually kinda of amazing. We heard a range from broadway musicals to Journey.
Tomorrow we will spend the day in New Orleans then it is off to Austin.
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