Despite the weather..we move on

Well I left off last week before we went to Maria's, home of the best margaritas!!  They certainly had the most...over 100 versions are listed and they have a book out about them!!  The ones we had were very good ..not any better than at Tomasitas where we had much better food the day before!!!  However I must confess we only had the $7.50 version...the prices went up to $75 !!!  This depended on the quality of the tequila that was used...

Monday, May 10th we drove from to Santa Fe to Sayre, OK stopping when we heard about the tornado line in OK City about 120 miles east of our location...there were quite a few tornados reported and we drove past a Love truck gas station off I-40 the next AM that was completely GONE!!  We saw all the debris...

We spent the night on Tues at a great Arkansas state park in Russelville...it was on the Dardanelle Lake and had been recommended by a knitting friend.  Thanks, Liz!!  The people we met were great but both of us confessed later that we had only understood some of the stories due to their accents!!

Wednesday we arrived in Memphis, TN and stayed at Graceland RV Park!!  We saw Graceland on a walk around the perimeter with Molly but didn't really need to pay to see the inside...I think we saw a documentary on TV at one time..  Took a shuttle into town to see Beale St which has all the blues and rock and roll bars and restaurants.....had a great meal of ribs, cole slaw, beans and corn bread at BB Kings place!!  Wednesday night happened to be Bike night on Beale street..at least a thousand motorcycles were lined up and down the street and they just kept coming as others left!!

Drove on to Nashville, TN the next day where we had an adventure finding a campground!!  The first one I had chosen was a corp of engineers campground on a lake supposed to beautiful!!.  After driving quite a bit off any main roads we came to some barriers in the road...two lane road where no turning around was possible in our rig...fortunately a truck behind us moved a barrier and went on ahead and called back via cell phone that only half the  road was flooded and as we went on so was the campground!!  Then we went to a state campground that I saw on the map but wasn't in the book...it was only a day use park!!  Called a KOA park next and after taking all my info etc she realized it was closed due to the flooding (she must have been in some central location and just reading her listings)  Finally found a RV park far enough away that had no problems.

On Friday we went to a civil war battleground and the the home of Andrew Jackson (our 7th president)
His home and grounds were beautiful but they did not make him out to be very charming!!

Yesterday we took a tour bus into Nashville....toured the Ryman which was the old home of the Grand Ole Opry and had been built as a church for a famous preacher originally... then we toured the Country music hall of fame, were driven by all the famous music studios etc...never even saw some areas including the Grand Ole Opry House due to the flood damage!!  In the evening we went to the Grand Ole Opry show which was held in a large Baptist Church (big enough for 2,500 people) but the attendance was really down apparently due to the confusion of where things were being held...this was the 4002nd show I believe and there had never been a cancelled show since it's beginning!!  We had a great time and Nashville is a great town....very beautiful skyline and downtown area as well as the suburbs.  Would recommend it to anybody!!

Well it's Sunday AM but not Mother's Day so I don't know if I'm going to get a special breakfast or not...maybe I'll have to start hinting!!  It's raining and the local stations are all voicing their concerns about more flooding!!

I really think we are bad omens for the locations we are coming to or from!!

Would love to hear from you all...miss everybody!!

Pat and Art