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Memphis Road Trip: So Long and Thanks for All the Oysters
Last entry for our trip home. We got up this morning to the sun shining in the windows. Every step takes us further from Memphis and the Blues. So the drive from St. Louis area to McHenry was uneventful. We ran into snow along the way, but nothing on the road. We made it home […]
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Memphis Road Trip: Leaving Clarksdale
It is a sad day. We awoke in our share cropper’s cabin to a sunny day. However, this was the day that we are leaving Clarksdale and the Delta to return home to Illinois. You should be able to hear the loud wailing and mourning at this point. We cleaned up the cabin, packed the car, […]
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Memphis Road Trip: At the Crossroads
One the road again. This time, we are down in the Delta visting Clarksdale. Legend has it, Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads to gain his skills with blues music and to be a guitar master. Those crossroads are in Clarksdale where Hwy 49 and Hwy 61 meet. The same […]
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Memphis Road Trip: I want to be a Peabody duck!
Last full day in Memphis. Rich says I’m leaving out a lot of details that he thinks I should include. I think it’s fine or it would be a novel. I don’t time for a novel! Rick is taking over my house! So I called Rick late last night since we had been out wondering […]
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Memphis Road Trip: A Whole Lotta Kings
Another great day in Memphis. What a trip this has turned out to be. One of us slept in yesterday while the other one was writing her blog entry. You know how I mean. I guess it gets harder to rejuvenate after a night on Beale Street. We are beginning to see how connected Chicago […]
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Memphis Road Trip: B.B. Wasn’t Home
Yesterday, we woke up to clear skies after the big tornado and thunderstorms of the night before. High was going to be 59 with a light wind. Just right for hiking through the concrete canyons. We hit the streets and rounded the corner to this little shotgun restaurant that I had stopped by the night […]
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Memphis Road Trip: First Half Day
And the saga continues. We had an uneventful drive down to Memphis yesterday morning. Not much traffic on a Sunday morning. I so wanted to stop in New Madrid and see the earthquake zone and museum. Just probably not open at 10:30 on a Sunday. So we continued down Interstate 55. Maybe on the return. […]
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Memphis Road Trip: Home to Cape Girardeau MO
We were talking a couple of weeks ago and found out that we both had vacation days left that we would lose at the end of January. We always say we should go somewhere, but we never do. Now that Rick will be 18 in 6 weeks, seemed like a good opportunity. Rick could stay […]
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An Outdoor Day
For a winter day, today wasn’t too bad. The temp got up to 30 at least, if not more. The wind was relatively calm. My weather station didn’t record anything too major. Sascha must have thought so too. She preferred outside today. In the late morning, I put Sascha out. She was sitting in her […]
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Always Something with Sascha
With any animal, you find your life is a little more interesting. Our dog, Sascha, is no exception to that rule. She always comes up with something that surprises me, makes me laugh, or just downright astounds me. Today was another snow day for us. The snow from yesterday continued on through the night and […]