Memphis

We stayed in Tom Sawyer Mississippi River RV Park in West Memphis, AR which is on the other side of the river from Memphis, TN. We got to watch barges go by right from our campsite. At night the barges would come so close to our shore that it looked like you could jump right on one.

Another workamper couple that we worked with in Wisconsin met us down here and we rode with them to check out Beale Street. We ate some fabulous Memphis barbeque ribs and pulled pork at the Pig on Beale Street. We also tried them again at BB King's but the BBQ at Pigs was better although BB Kings restaurant has a very famous banana bread pudding with caramel sauce which is served warm and is truly wonderful. We listened to some live blues music while at BB King's. A band played that was led by a 15 year old boy who could really play the blues on guitar. He was amazing to watch and it sounded great.

We stayed in at Tom Sawyer's for a week and then headed south through Mississippi. We spent a night south of Jackson and had to give our bikes away. Our bike rack broke and we had no way to haul our bikes. We gave them to a nice retired Navy man at the park we were staying in and he was very happy to get them. The bikes were old, the seats were tearing and they had some rust. If we figure out another way to haul bikes we might replace them.

We spent two nights in Louisiana waiting for the rain to stop. It was in the high 80's and raining so the humidity was incredible. We ate great cajun food -- gumbo, etouffe, fried shrimp, crawdads and catfish. Next stop Texas.