For reasons I cannot explain There’s some part of me wants to see Graceland ~ Paul Simon The only time we were in Memphis, we did not go to Graceland, which I thought was just wrong. Now once again, we have headed south to escape the midwest winter gloom on a meandering drive destined for…
Continue reading →The first Peabody Hotel was built on Main Street and Monroe, in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1869, and named in honor of George Peabody, for his contributions to the south. It hosted many important dignitaries of the time, including Andrew Johnson, William McKinley, Robert E. Lee, and Jefferson Davis.The hotel closed in 1923 in preparation to…
Continue reading →We headed out a back door route on a lazy, meandering four-day southbound road trip through six states to Sanibel Island, Florida, where we’ve rented a condo for three weeks. It is the middle of winter, so the landscape was leafless and gray, but we were lucky to have clear, but chilly, weather. The Missouri…
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