Total miles traveled as of Day Eight: 3881
So I'm catching up a little bit since the last few days had a whole lot of driving and not a whole lot of down time. I'll keep these next few posts brief and then expound on other topics separately.
Anyway, Day Eight started in Muskogee, OK. The only goal for the day was to get to Memphis before 5pm so that I could hit Beale Street for the 4th of July festivities. I had read that they were doing a "Red, White, and Blues" festival in Handy Park from 6-10pm followed by fireworks.
The drive through Arkansas was fairly unremarkable except that the scenery was quite a change from Kansas and Oklahoma. It felt much more like the South than I had been in to that point. In general, the South is much greener than I had envisioned in my head and every bit as muggy as I thought.
Once I got into Memphis, I decided to splurge a bit and got a room at the Holiday Inn a couple of blocks away from Beale Street. It just felt amazing to finally be in a place where I could relax, especially after driving 1400 miles in two days. I'll talk about the July 4th night, but I went to The Pig on Beale Street for ribs for dinner and that was quite good!
More later!
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