Day 8

The campsite at the SP is small but quite nice. Lots of shaded sites and is very peaceful. Today we went to Memphis and cycled on Mud Island which is a large sandbar in the Mississippi river with mostly recreational use land and one nice area of houses and condominiums. We put on about 17 km cycling along the river. To reach the island we actually had to take our bikes in an elevator and then ride across a sky bridge.  The island also has a scaled replica of part of the Mississippi river with very interesting educational posts along it.

Then off to Beale St for beer and ribs. Then we went to the Cotton Exchange museum. Admission for seniors (us) is $9 and worth the price. Learned a lot about the cotton industry over the last few centuries and were surprised that working and living conditions continued to remain poor until the latter half of the twentieth century.