Drive Time: 6 ½ hours
Highlights: Wednesday started and ended with perfection. We took the liberty of sleeping in, ate a big Country Inn breakfast, and spent the morning walking through the Gaylord Opryland compound and the Grand ole Opry House. The weather was beautiful (daylight made driving so much easier) and we enjoyed all kinds of fact-finding and fun stops along the way. We stopped through Memphis (briefly) and luckily arrived at the Peabody Hotel just in time to see the famous duck march. Thanks to a recommendation from Lucy Harris, good friend from UVA who was born in Memphis, Mike found his way to Gus’s friend chicken… He must have said “this is really good chicken” at least 7 times (and that was over the course of eating only two pieces). By 8:30 that night we were pulling into Flora, MS to see some friends from college (Michael and Rebecca Ueltschey and their daughter Anderson). Our wedding (in February of ’07) was the last time we had seen each other, so it was such a gift to have time to spend together.
Things I Learned: Vicksburg is not named after (football star and dog-killer) Michael Vick. You can’t buy wine in Mississippi grocery stores. Southern twang can be very difficult to understand – even for a girl born and raised in Jamestown, NC. Ducks can be trained to walk the red carpet. Justin Timberlake has a gold-note on Beale Street. Ramsey the Great is (for some odd reason) an icon in Memphis, Tennessee. Anderson Ueltschey is one of the strongest (almost) one-year-olds I have ever met.
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