Our first two night stay, arriving in the evening and just time for a visit to Mud Island River Park where there is a scale model of part of the Mississippi river (though it no longer has flowing water and is sadly not well cared for!). There’s a big MEMPHIS sign too …
Adding another state to our list, we chose to visit Tupelo the birthplace of Elvis Presley! There was a lot of Elvis around, including just yards from our hotel … more pictures of course (the hardware store is supposed to be where Elvis was purchased his first guitar, rather than a rifle, so beginning his career!):
Another place we’d learned about on YouTube, this one-time iron smelting plant closed down in 1970 but was saved from destruction / clearance and is now a National Historic Landmark. Everything there is so big and an amazing place to walk around, trying to imagine the heat and noise when it was running …
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