Memphis

A few photographs from the historic town...

Beale Street filled with revellers on a Saturday night.  Outdoor bars keep the crowd moistened while live blues packs the street with noise and rhythm

Sun Studios.  The place where a shy, eighteen year old Elvis Presley recorded his first single That's Alright Mama,  where a travelling salesman named Johnny Cash arrived one day looking to record a song and the room in which rock and roll was born

Sunset over the Mississippi River.  The state of Arkansas lies on the opposite bank.

The Lorraine Motel, room 306, the balcony on which Dr Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated.

The walls of Graceland Mansion, covered entirely by decades of visiting fans.

Rosie kicks back in The Jungle Room

Crossing over the river, we slipped into Arkansas, made a quick stop off at Little Rock High School, (made famous by the Little Rock Nine, an incredible yet disturbing chapter of history) and arrived in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  The temperature today hit 100F (37C) as we picked up our favourite road again, Route 66, and explored a few roadside oddities - a giant blue whale in a disused swimming pond, for example.  Tomorrow we'll enter Kansas for a spot of tornado hunting and a diet of nothing but barbecued meat.