Sunday, October 31, 2010

Day 24 – New Orleans - Memphis, Tennessee




We left New Orleans mid-afternoon and headed toward the home of all things, Elvis - Memphis, Tennessee. We stopped late afternoon at McDonalds in Canton, Mississippi, to utilise their free wifi to book our accommodation for Memphis. Two problems occurred here, one the wifi did not work and two; we ended up eating some double cheeseburgers. Keanan and Jon were the only crackers to be seen in the entire Maccas store, staff included.

We arrived in Memphis in the evening with no accommodation. The first hotel we tried was full but luckily the Benchmark Hotel next door was not. Once we checked in and entered the room we realised why. The shower alternated erratically between one of two temperatures: scalding hot or icy cold, there was a cockroach situation and we also copped top dollar charges for walking in off the street! We couldn’t complain about the location though. A short wander down the street and we had a bag of southern fried chicken to feed a nation.

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