Sharon and I went down south for a week. First night was spent in Memphis. We went to Beale Street before the serious partying started.
Ate at a restaurant called Miss Polly's. Some of the best BBQ pork I have ever tasted. Slightly blackened and spicy. When we had our own meat company I had the opportunity to taste some winning BBQ contestant's cooking. Of course they expected the meat to be provided for free because if they won a contest with Iowa Farm Families Pork it would bring a lot of business to Iowa Farm Families. Yea right, that happened lets see, Oh yea never. Anyway, Miss Polly's knew how to cook BBQ pork.
I spent part of the week studying Framework for Christian Faith.
A bit too fundamentalist for my taste, but one should never read just what you agree with. To read the opinions of those you disagree with makes you justify and define why you believe what you believe.
I also reread a book called Turtle Feet. The self told story of a young Bulgarian man who goes to India to become a Buddhist Monk. He ends up disenchanted with Buddhism and all religion.
Looking through the pictures, I started to think maybe I was the only one learning and studying.
Do you see Sharon reading?
No, she's sitting on a wharf, or in the surf
Standing on top of a Pyramid. Yes you read that correctly. Bass Pro Shoppes in Memphis is in a Pyramid. Of course it might have been that the man taking the pictures of Sharon only took pictures when she was doing nothing, but I wouldn't know anything about that.
There is a lodge inside where you can stay. Some of the rooms are only $250 a night. I don't know, $250 seems a bit steep to me to stay overnight in a store.
We took a ferry out to Ship Island which is about 50 minutes from shore
nice secluded beach
I was glad to see they counted the passengers back onto the Ferry 4 hours later to make sure no one was left behind.
We drove south of New Orleans. I wanted to see where the Mississippi finally emptied into the Gulf.
We finally turned around when the water was on the road at what I assume was high tide. We were about an hour and a half south of New Orleans at this point
We ate at a restaurant way down at the mouth of the Mississippi. It was run by a man who immigrated from Vietnam in 1990. He said the water was 20 feet deep in this spot when Katrina hit..
If you look behind me you can see the stuffed deer are decorated for Christmas. Yes this picture was taken in July.
I had my computer with me and had planned on spending just a few minutes each day on it. After the first night I could never get connected to the internet. No e-mail, no markets, no information. I think God wanted me to just shut everything down for a week and it was a good thing.
