New Plan -- Going to Kill Devil Hills

Well, if there is even a slight chance at Chatanooga, do it! There is an
awesome acquarium there with it's beautiful buildings near the river. Quite
a treat to see and allow plenty of hours to do so - you'll need it. If
possible stay in the Holiday Inn made out of the old grand central train
station, complete with the old trains to go inside and see. This city is
quite a treat just for those two items above.

Dang it, maybe we can hit Chatanooga next month, when we're on our way
to Sun N Fun.

We launched this morning with the intent of making it as far west as
possible, so that we could sit out the big storms that are heading
east, hopefully in a place with plenty of things to see and do.
Flight Service gave us little hope of making it much past mid-
Tennessee before the crap hit the fan.

After lunch in Huntsville, AL (Madison County Executive) at Posey's, a
little home-grown place that we discovered the last time we were here,
back in '03, we checked the weather and decided to keep heading west
for Memphis -- a place we've always wanted to visit.

En route we never ran into anything lower than 7 miles visibility, and
were fat dumb and happy droning along up at 6500 feet, cranking the XM
tunes. It was another marvelous day of flying...

We over-flew Chatanooga when it became obvious that Memphis was easily
doable -- XM satellite weather is AWESOME for trips of this nature. We
decided to land at Olive Branch, a very nice airport under the Class C
veil of Memphis International. The guys there were great, helping us
line up a rental car and a decent motel room. We found our way to a
generic-but-nice Holiday Inn Express (yes, the same brand we've made
fun of!), and are planning on hitting Beale Street tonight for some
hot blues, and then we'll do Graceland tomorrow for our Elvis fix...

Anyone got any other suggestions to see in Memphis? We've got all day
Thursday, and I don't want to spend all day in Elvis-Land...
--
Jay Honeck
Currently in Memphis, TN
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"