We finally have time to continue the blog

We've had a very busy time the last several days.  We headed East from Tom Sawyer Campground in West Memphis, Arkansas this morning and landed in Newport, Tennessee tonight.  We'll be home tomorrow as our company from Canada arrived at the house today.  But, lets back up a bit.

We had our last campfire with everyone at Lake Catherine, we all said our goodbyes and we pulled out on Wednesday morning for Tom Sawyer Campground in West Memphis, Arkansas.  The campground has full hookups but is kind of bare bones due to the fact that the Mississippi River takes it over on occasion.  The view from our rigs was spectacular.    

We watched barges going up and down the river all day and night.  There is an eight mile an hour current flowing south so the towboats heading north were working a lot harder than the southbound ones.

We visited the Peabody Hotel to watch the Duck Walk.  Here is the Duck Master

The ducks come down the elevator from their penthouse suite every day at 11AM and go back up to their suite at 5 PM and spend the day in the fountain. 

This piano belonged to Francis Scott Key.  The hotel has no idea how they came into possession of it.

It is a beautiful place to visit and learn about its history. 


We toured the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis.  It is located at the Lorrain Motel Where Dr. King was shot.

This is the balcony of room 306 where he was assassinated. 

This depicts the four students that sat at the Woolworths lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Here is Rosa Parks refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man.

The museum was done very well and there is a lot to take in.  The museum makes one wonder what our country would be like today if Dr. King and his belief in the non-violent protest were still alive.

We visited the Blues Hall of Fame right next door.

Back at the campground, right next to our trailer was a mother killdeer sitting on her three eggs. 

They hatched while we were there. We couldn't get the whole family in one picture.