Going there 4 days to visit a little buddy at St. Judes. Other than Graceland, what should we do/see in our short time there?
Eat some ribs?
plan on it!
Eat some ribs?
And some good southern BBQ.
overeating is definitely in the plans.
Rendezvous for Ribs. A little hard to find in downtown. But well worth the search.
Peabody Hotel for the duck parade.
The Gibson Plant and the Rock and Soul Museum (The only Smithsonian museum outside Washington)
There’s a fountain/water map of the Mississippi river on Mud Island, very cool.
Sorry, too early for the Redbirds, and the Grizzlies suck.
Rendezvous for ribs…Though some people don’t like the dry rub, the trick is to put the sauce on after they get to your table. It’s in an alley behind the Holiday Inn downtown. Or it used to be the Holiday Inn.
if you like clubbing, then there’s Beale Street, but it’s not all that.
Memphis rocks. Graceland, BBQ, Rock & Roll, Blues…
It’s a great city to hang out for a spell. I don’t know what living there would be like, but for me it would be short term anyway - I’d be found dead in some blues hall having had a coronary.
Chicago has some great blues as well…
So, am I to conclude there is not much to see in Memphis?
Memphis is best viewed from your rear view mirror. It’s a dangerous hell hole.
was going to be there for a conference next week but i bailed. i had graceland on the list, too, as well as some BBQ, the gibson factory, and the sun records studio. then i realized that i mostly was planning these things because the conference lineup looked sort of mediocre. then i realized that the tourism options were mediocre too. so now i’m going to spend the week with my dad, and let someone else read my paper.
s’long, memphis!
-mike
there used to be a cool mall with an indoor ice arena and the world’s best corndogs - but apparantly it’s gone now. oh well.
also, fedex super hub
When we lived in Tennessee, we were about 2 hours from Memphis and 2 1/2 from Nashville. The only reason we ever went to Memphis was to go to the mall and Borders, while there always seemed to be a ton of reasons to go to Nashville.
As far as danger level goes, it’s not great, but as long as you stick to the tourist areas and the nice areas out toward Germantown, it’s as safe as any other city its size.
Well not seeing too much that looks interesting. The most amazing thing I saw today was the Ronald McDonald house that serves St. Judes. Truely an amazing place. If you good ST’rs have a few dollars to donate, I would highly recommend the RM House. Tomorrow a tour of St. Judes.
Memphis-not too much here. Nice people. Don’t wear a Univ. of Tenn hat in Memphis like I did.