Cruisin' through Memphis

Well, we are rolling along. We stayed in Albuquerque on Tuesday night, and it was 7% humidity. Tonight in West Memphis it's 51%. It was a smooth drive, and the trailers are riding very well, despite the weight!

By the time we reached Oklahoma City Wednesday evening, a storm was brewing. Luckily for us, we were able to 'ride the high'; there was a high pressure system between two storms, and we stayed right in the middle. Behind us, Oklahoma City had tornadoes, in front of us it was raining all the way to the coast. Whew!

Arkansas has so many rivers! And, it seems they are all flooding right now. In eastern Arkansas all the rivers we passed are flooding, and I'm so grateful that the highway was built high enough not to flood. We didn't see any houses being flooded, seems they have enough sense not to build on the flood plain, unlike some developers in the Maricopa valley. The fields are being planted, and the trees and flowers are blooming, it's really pretty.

We will cross the Mississippi river tomorrow morning, and right through Memphis. We won't get to stop this time. We were here about 12 years ago, and got to spend a day in Memphis. No, we didn't get to Graceland, darn it, but we went to Beale Street and it was pretty grimy, actually. The rest of Memphis was pretty nifty though. There was a really cool island right in the Mississippi river that had a scale model of the River from beginning to end. It was a big concrete model that showed all the states, and the Mississippi running through them. We spent a couple hours there, I was fascinating, the kids ran all over it, and jumped back and forth across the running water, saying "Hey, I just jumped the Mississippi!" OK, maybe that was actually me jumping across...