The museum was very interesting, with newspaper clippings, photographs and aritfacts from "Mr. Sam's" life. He was certainly an unusual man and quite an entrepreneur! Visiting the museum was a lot of fun.
However, the road beckoned. We headed out of town and soon were in the Ozark Mountains. The fall colors were just starting to show and the soft-looking mountains were an interesting contrast to the Cascades and Rockies:
We knew we were back in the south because we saw pine trees, cotton growing and kudzu vines. It seemed so much like home.
Later in the afternoon we arrived at the bridge over the Mississippi River. Please forgive the quality of our picture, but we just had to get a picture:
We were now in Tennessee on the edge of Memphis:
We skirted south around Memphis, into Mississippi, and stopped at our motel in Horn Lake, MS, a suburb of Memphis. This was planned to be our last night on the road.
