Day 69 – Memphis (West), AR

I told you yesterday that we were headed for Memphis today; well, I’m not quite a liar, just maybe a little misleading. We’re in a nice RV Park called Tom Sawyer’s, right on the bank of that same big river we stayed alongside of in Natchez, MS. We have an even better view of the river here than we did in Natchez, because there’s no levee in the way. There’s a lot of big grassy areas for me to roll and run in, and I think my walks will be more fun than they have been for the last few days. But getting here wasn’t a lot of fun, particularly for Don. Last night, the thunder and lightning was so strong that I kept Geri and I awake some of the night. The rain came down and beat on the roof so hard it sounded like rocks; it was raining cats! On top of that, Don had a coughing fit in the middle of the night, and it drove Geri onto the living room couch, which she folded out into a bed and tried to sleep on. Don, of course, slept soundly until seven, when he got up and looked at us like we were nuts. He takes sleeping very seriously, and doesn’t allow much of anything to bother him at night. But it was still raining when he got up, off and on. Geri asked him if he thought we should stay in Nashville for another day until the weather cleared, but he was determined to move on to Memphis. So, about ten thirty, we hauled out of Nashville and headed west. We were barely on the road before we were hit with a blinding rainstorm that definitely kept us in the slow lane. Between Nashville and Jackson, the rain was extremely heavy almost the full time, giving me nothing to look at out the window, so I went to the floor and napped. I was sleeping lightly though, so I could still hear Don’s comments on the weather. They weren’t what you could call nice. It started to let up just before Jackson, and we stopped there for a flawless refueling operation. It continued to improve as we neared Memphis, and we pulled into our new home in partial sunshine. But we just heard on the Weather Channel that Nashville has gotten over 2.5 inches of rain today, and the day isn’t over! It also looks like another storm will be moving through here tonight, and probably most of tomorrow.

After we got set up in our new Park, Don cooked up some salmon with tortelloni and pesto sauce, with a little spinach in balsamic vinegar on the side. I love the plates from that meal, though there usually isn’t much left on them. Geri took me for a very pleasant walk after dinner, and we met a lot of people who thought I was really nice. Very intuitive of them. Don spied on the guy next door, who was hooking up his car to his coach using one of those really nice hitches that mount on the coach and look really spiffy. He noted that the process took about twenty minutes, with both the guy and his wife working on it. Our hitch takes about five minutes for Don to hook up, by himself. He likes it, even though it isn’t the latest, trendy thing.
Don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow, guess it kind of depends on the weather. We might have to hunker down like we did in Charleston that one day. See ya then!