This morning we said good-bye to New Orleans and started our travel north to Memphis. The picture on the left was taken as I was travelling along the bridge across the mighty Mississippi. As you can see the water is almost as high as the bridge itself. Today we rode on Hwy 11 through the Irish Bayou towards Memphis. Once we were close to Hattiesburg we decided that it was too hot and we hit the interstate 59 which cut our trip by at least an hour. Our planned stop today was in Meridian, Mississippi for a dealer party at Chunky River Harley Davidson. We arrived just in time for their free lunch on Saturdays. The guys went to the Jimmie Rodgers Museum and I stayed at the hotel to enjoy the pool and have a nap! The weather is so hot it just takes the energy right out of me - of course it had nothing to do with the party the night before! 
Supper was served at the Chunky River Harley Davidson where they served catfish or pulled pork along with coleslaw, potato salad. Delicious (did not eat the catfish!). While I was there I had the manager for parts check out my tire to make sure I didn't need one and he said I was good - hard to imagine - still the original tire and I have 23,000 km on it!! I did however have some highway pegs installed and hopefully that helps with the long rides we are still in for later this week.Tomorrow we end up in Memphis and have one stop at Elvis Presley's birthplace so I am looking forward to that stop! Memphis will be a two night stop so Monday there is going to be lots of time to check out Graceland before the big party on Beale Street!
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