A morning city tour pick up from the hotel at 9.15, after breakfast of course! We saw downtown Memphis, the Mississippi River and across the river to Arkansas. Unfortunately I can't tick it off as we didn't cross over. So sad. We passed Beale Street, the entertainment are and drove down millionaires row - a legacy from the cotton days of this part of Tennessee. We saw where Elvis made s first recording at Sun Studios, with a giant guitar hanging outside. The...

A good train journey and we are now in Memphis. Train about 40 minutes late getting in. Caught a taxi to the Hotel and now ready for bed. Off to do a full day tour tomorrow . Good night from the home of Elvis and Rock and Roll.

AMTRAK Experience 2 New Orleans LA to Memphis TN We got to the New Orleans station with about 40 minutes to spare and this was good as there was already a queue for Coach (economy) forming. While Joanne went off to get lunch I got to talking to lady and a man from Jackson, state of Mississippi. Before we got to board we already had an invitation to come to dinner with them and have corn bread and experience Southern hospitality. It would have been nice but M...

New Orleans 2 - Sunday evening. Out into the hustle and bustle of New Orleans in search of somewhere to eat - Joanne's choice. We settled for the Attiki Bar and Grill. The food looked ok on the menu, but I guess we were unprepared for what was inside. It was a "hooker" place. No, not that, but a hooker is a smoking device similar to a middle Eastern implement that is sucked on through a hose. Part alcohol and part...well I'm not too sure. They came in vari...

Sunday - New Orleans 2 Our day 2 in New Orleans began at the Hotel's breakfast bar so we could use the public wifi. We were not going to pay $15! Interestingly wifi was free in the restaurants. We found out that we could also get the free public wifi in our room, so we were set for blogging etc. Off to walk the streets again before our swamp and plantation tour pick up at 10.30am. We walked up Chatre Street and then turned down Bourbon Street. Well, what a con...