One last big gallery drop from the Great Birthday Road Trip of 2021 and the soul of the Mississippi: Memphis, TN.

I told y’all about the gracious invitations in Savannah, but in Memphis, those invitations are more along the lines of “Well, you comin’?” The locals treat you like they’ve known you a million years, and talk to you that way too. It’s a city where everybody can feel at home, and it shows. Everything in Memphis bleeds into itself. Where most cities I’ve traveled have distinct neighborhoods, with hard lines defining the borders of each one’s personality, Memphis feels more like a pumping heart with different chambers of the same whole, all moving to the same beat.

History, music, people and their stories, past and present are all inseparable there, and though it was only temporarily my last stop, it came as no surprise that so many people make their stay in Blues City permanent. A perfect place to close the show.

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where i wandered: