Thursday Sept 7th
Litchfield, Illinois

Free continental breakfast at the hotel, some hot coffee and we're the first ones through the door at Niehaus Cycle  @ 9:00am.
In what are the first of our mistakes of the trip. Greg leaves his deodorant at the hotel and I leave a newly paid for can of Plexas on the cycle shop counter. We blamed Dinger for that the rest of the trip.


Free breakfast!

Morning coffee

Niehaus bike shop

 


Helmet law in Missouri.

After the bike shop visit. We head south on Hwy 127, boring road that turned into a good twisty ride south of Pinckneyvile, I'll. At Jonesboro, Mo we head west and get back on I-43 into Memphis.
We missed our downtown exit and end up at the Graceland gift shop and buy some "Elvis" sunglasses. No time for the Graceland tour this trip.
Show some respect guys, that big plane is called the "Lisa Marie". (Greg and Dinger had no idea what the big plane was in front of Graceland! Don't disrespect the King Baby!)

Taking a second look at the map we find downtown and select the Holiday Inn for our stay, 350 miles exactly ends the ride for the day.

 First on our list after checking in was a cocktail! Crown and diet cokes for all. What's the chances the bartender was from Wisconsin? ... Good and yes she was.


Wouldn't buy a light bulb from these guys

Cheeshead

With a couple cocktails in us we clean up and head to our destination, Charlie Vergo's Rendezvous.
A back ally rib joint Greg found on the food channel.
Great place to eat that the locals seemed to turn their noses up at. "It's a DRY RUB!" To their credit Memphis has hundreds of BBQ joints so everyone is going to have their own favorite. My book says you won't go wrong at Charlie Vergo's.


Happy Cooks
 
They weren't too bad.
 

On to Beale street for some night life. Need I say the music was great.
"War' yooou from sugar?" was the comment we heard most from the waitresses.


Beale Street!

BB King's Bar
Greg: "Dinger you can't get on the bar at Coyote Ugly's!"

Hell I cant!
(Check out the gal behind the bar yelling NO!!!)

Hell you cant!
I think you could have taken him
if you hadn't been drinking.
Beale St. should be a stop for anyone staying in the area. Great music, lots of bars and plenty of street vendors to help spend your money. Although Greg was scared to get that air brushed tattoo. There are large bars like BB King's and Coyote Ugly's and there are some small 30 seat bars with live music if you didn't like the crowds. We had a good time not to mention the walk after being on the bikes all day was good.

 

Ridding will get you through more times of no money,
than money will get you through times of no ridding.

 

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