On a side note, I want to thank Matt for this spontaneous road trip and for being patient as he drove for 6 hours. My family travelled a lot when I was younger and I remember being car sick often and not seeing much of the landscape as we drove. While I don’t get nauseous anymore, I still often nap to deter any motion sickness. And when I’m awake, I thoroughly enjoy all the sites. Matt will attest to the many times I wanted to stop to take “the perfect photo” of multi-colored cows, barns, Oh those clouds! Yeah, yeah, this is the Midwest and they’re everywhere, but have you ever just stopped to SEE how incredible it all is? When you travel with M, he’s on this “schedule” and God forbid if we have to make a rest stop – which for me, is often. After twenty-some years, he knows this but he still gives me a hard time for having a bladder the size of a peanut. AND yes, I don’t have a problem with actually going to the bathroom if there is someone in the next stall! When nature calls, I GO! Ok, I think I’ve made a perfectly good case for necessary rest stops and going with the flow.
Front of Sun Studio — Elvis was here.
The infamous toothpicks in the ceilings of Huey’s.
Probably the most disappointing thing {for Matt} was the Peabody ducks. After the tour, we rushed to get to the Peabody Hotel to see the infamous ducks do their “walk.” Seriously, the crowd was bigger than the group that congregate at the Louvre for the Mona Lisa. There was a long, introductory oration which didn’t interest me enough to fight the crowd, before the four ducks jumped out of the fountain and walked the red carpet to the elevators. This took all of five minutes. I’m still amazed that people will go there to witness this. A mass of people came to see the ducks at the Peabody — but I found these dogs to be far more interesting.
