Thought we should update our blog again, it’s been a few days and we have ventured to the Deep South. Gretchen flies out tomorrow back to Australia after 10 months away, 2 continents, numerous cultures, trekking, overnight buses, planes, snow, road trips, diving, and creating a home overseas! Memphis was first, home of the blues and Elvis. Entering Tennessee and massive stretches of water where paddocks should have been, the highway sandbagged. We crossed the flooded Mississippi into town. Wandering down to the Lorraine Motel, we saw the spot where Martin Luther King Jnr was gunned down, now the National Civil Rights Museum. Beale St is the centre of the party. The biggest groups of people were the huge numbers of police standing on the corners, as well as the enclosed cherry pickers they could watch
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