the Slippery Noodle

Our detour to Indianapolis sent us to the “Slippery Noodle” this evening – Indiana’s oldest bar… with blues music 7 days a week… We caught Tony Cheesebourough with a stripped down band bass, guitar and keyboard… Reuben on keyboards was quite...

Nashville… and then Indianapolis!

So… we couldn’t find a hotel in the Nashville area (or witihin a 30 mile radius!) for tonight (well especially not one that suited our budget!)… what with a marathon going on in Nashville and what seemed like some major dog show (we kept seeing people with...

Waking up in Columbia… Nashville

Good morning… hmm… ok… so we left Memphis yesterday morning… the day before that (Thursday) I spent a large chunk of the day at Graceland (and the associated ELVIS attractions )… I found it all fairly ridiculous… like being at...

Outside Nashville

So it’s about 2am… we are in a motel just South of Nashville… Today we visited Shiloh… a particularly bloody and important site during the American Civil war… it was something that David was particularily intersted in seeing. It was quite...

In Memphis

Today we arrived in Memphis… we’ll be heading out to visit Beale Street shortly… Let me think now… we were in New Orleans on Saturday and Sunday. We were up far too early on Saturday morning and did the 7½ hour drive to New Orleans… David...