Saturday, September 22, 2018

Memphis Paddlewheel River Cruise - Memphis, Tennessee


Sep 16

Dad would have been 87 today. Normally, we would have tried to set up a 3-way call with Scott & Sonya.

We went to lunch today at Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken. It’s a hot chicken almost like in Nashville and the food was incredible. No wonder there was a long waiting line to get in.




From there we took a 90 minute ride on a Paddlewheeler on the Mississippi River. We did one in Memphis (but not on the Mississippi River) and it was more enjoyable since it had a lunch and entertainment. This one was just a history tour. It was nice and informative, but it would have been nice to have lunch and a blues band or something. I knew what it was when I booked it, so not complaining.

The song lyrics to Proud Mary have a line that says “But I never saw the good side of the city

'Til I hitched a ride on a river boat queen” and it really is a great view of the city.



 front of the boat









  
barge overloaded with rocks








 bridge was made to look like the letter M for Memphis aka Dolly Parton Bridge


 close-up of the "pusher" of the barges











Bass Pro Shops building






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In our last Park our phones had minimal service and the WIFI was all but nonexistent, so I got behind on the blog. We are in Louisiana now and have great internet and phone. Yeah!

Tomorrow, we are having a day off, sort of.....

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