We've been busy... HUGE Flea Market in Canton, TX - Sally shopping for hours, probably walked 5 miles. Gregg shopped enough to buy a turkey leg and read the afternoon away in the RV. That's how men shop...
Hot Springs, Arkansas. Toured the National Park Visitor Center in one of the old bathhouses. What a great place! Actually the first national park before Yellowstone, called a Federal Reservation at the time in the 1800's. Had it not been raining like the dickens, we would have stayed longer, hiked a lot and partaken of one of the hot mineral water baths.
Little Rock, AR. Again the rain kept us from hikes and biking on what look to be wonderful trails. But we thoroughly enjoyed the Bill Clinton Presidential Library and the free RV overnight in the parking lot there. Click here to see some of the pictures
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We are on a quest to see all the Presidential libraries and museums we can find. They are fascinating.
Memphis,
Tennessee Looked like Arkansas was swampland with so much standing water, and we headed over the Mississippi River to see Grac
eland. What a fun blast from the past seeing Elvis's home. A mansion to the Presleys in the 50's-70's, very dated and pretty tacky looking to me all these years later. Green shag carpeting on the floor AND the ceiling in his "Jungle Room"!! Very kitschy all over. But the museum exhibits are fascinating, his costumes, personal family video clips, movie clips, TV program clips. One can spend hours there... Nashville, TN Ahhh...now we have found a place to stay a few days. This is a beautiful city and the rain is finally slowing down a bit. (Forecast for today was "drier" and it has been, just mist). Today we saw The Hermitage, Andrew Jackson's (7th President's) home. It has been preserved just as he lived in it with original 170+ year old wallpaper, and personal property, beautiful flower garden that includes their family cemetery, and slave quarters.
Nashville is Music City USA so, yes, we do have our tickets to the Grand Ole Opry for tomorrow night and we'll go see all the Country Music Hall of Fame and Opryland stuff tomorrow.
Sally and Gregg, We just found your Blog. Excellent job! We've been enjoying reading about all of the places you are visiting. Best wishes on the road....travel safely and we hope that we'll meet you again on down the road. C&J
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