BBQ AND BASEBALL TOUR 2017 DAY #11 “Enough Pork to Last a Lifetime, Well Maybe Just Until Next Memphis in May”

With the BBQ Championships behind us it was time to move forward.  I did another weigh-in prior to leaving the hotel.  For those of you who didn’t see my first weigh-in I have included both the before and after pictures.

We packed up and headed for Nashville.  But first we had to stop by the Pink Palace.  This is a collection of museums and originally was a home owned and occupied by the man who started the Piggly Wiggly chain of stores.  We didn’t have a lot of time to peruse the collection but I did see this cartoon that caught my eye.  Apparently it was drawn in about the 1880s when Memphis was decimated by an outbreak of yellow fever.

After the Pink Palace it was off to Nashville but I couldn’t leave Memphis without passing along one more tidbit.  Apparently  people around here like their guns and sometimes need to be reminded that they are not appropriate everywhere.  You already saw the billboard at the entrance to the BBQ Festival.   Here are a couple more examples.

The drive to Nashville took about 3 hours.  We did see some interesting signs but I didn’t get any pictures so you will have to take my word when I tell you we saw two (yes, two not one), “Adult Super Stores” advertising “DVDs, Magazines and Much More” along the highway.

We are not staying in downtown Nashville where much of the action is located but instead by the Grand Ole Opry.  We have tickets to a show on Tuesday night so more about that in a couple of days.