Rex and Nancy's Travels - "ALL WHO WANDER ARE NOT LOST" - JRR Tolkein

We left Vicksburg Tuesday morning and headed north on Highway 61, the Great River Road, to Memphis, TN.    We are staying at Tom Sawyer’s RV Park in West Memphis, Arkansas just across the river from Memphis.     This is a beautiful park right on the Mississippi River with nice long, wide pull-through sites.    Our site is right along the river and we are able to watch the barges going up and down the river. After we got the 5 th wheel set up we spent some time watching the barges – this is the view from our patio. Wednesday we crossed the river and went to Memphis where we walked along Beale Street.   There are more than 20 bars and clubs on Beale Street – B.B. King and Jerry Lee Lewis have cafe’s here.     The Grand Opera House was built in 1890 and destroyed by fire in 1923.     The    Orpheum Theatre was built on the site in 1923 and has been the en...