Day 176
When we made our plans to include Memphis into our journey, we were unsure what Memphis had to offer other than Graceland. We did hear about Beale Street located in down town Memphis that boasts having two miles of bars and restaurants, similar to Broadway street in Nashville but instead of country music blaring, it’s blues. Both Lori and I enjoy live music, but after visiting broadway in Nashville we had our share of bars competing to gain your attention by blasting music into the street, and drunk tourists. Please don’t get us wrong, Memphis is known for its own style of blues music and many of the blues legends have played here. Beale Street is considered a bucket list destination for hardcore blues fans.
The weather network indicated today will be sunny and beautiful. Not fully decided on any tourist destinations, we decided to just enjoy a quiet day with the puppies. We did some chores around the Rv, and headed into town for a few groceries.
Back in the late seventies and early eighty’s, there was a Tv sitcom called “Alice” about a widowed mother traveling across the US to become a singer and ends up taking a job at a roadside dinner in Arizona. In the show, there was one character called Flo who would always say “ Kiss My Grits!”. At the time I had to ask my dad what Grits were, he explained it was a breakfast porridge in the south. Without modern day tech like the internet and google, that was the best my knowledge went on the topic. It was not until the movie “My Cousin Vinny” came out in the mid ninety’s where the leading actors are looking through a diners menu and ask what grits are, and how there made. I had always wondered if grits were just a novelty food or was it a breakfast staple in the south? Fortytwo years later, I learned that grits is indeed a staple; we have been seeing it in restaurants and in the grocery stores throughout Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi.
