US Road Trip, Part I
13 November 2008 – 6:05 pmMemphis
My latest road trip started out in Memphis and shortly after landing I was greeted by two surprises: a rental mini-van instead of a car and a rain storm that didn’t want to stop.
The next big thing I noticed was the choice of radio stations: Country Music, Religion, Football, and a single Hip-Hop station. I’m not a huge fan of the first three so I stuck to the Hip-Hop station, HOT 107.1 (I often stream it when I’m working from home now).
Hoping to catch a break in the weather I headed over to Graceland. While I’m not a huge Elvis fan, its not often that Graceland is a ten minute drive away. The weather never broke so after exploring the area for a couple hours in the rain I grabbed some Southern fried chicken and hit the road for Arkansas.
Arkansas
I’ve always wanted to visit the Mississippi Delta, so after crossing the river I took the closest thruway exit after the rain stopped and started exploring.
Driving for a few hours, I ended up in a handful of towns and they all had a couple recurring themes: they were surrounded by fields of cotton and sorghum and their water towers had the town’s name along with the name of the Native American tribe that use to live there on it.
Being a former farm boy, I’ve seen a lot of different crop fields, but I have to admit that it was pretty exciting to see fields of cotton for the first time. 
more to come…
