About four hours drive and we arrive in Memphis. Since it was a lovely day, we immediately went and found the Big River crossing. In 2016 a wonderful project was completed, one can now walk across the Mississippi River, from Tennessee to Arkansas and back. Its’ about a mile each way.
View from the bridge, and what is that pyramid? I asked the same question, it was built as a basketball venue, and now is a Bass Pro Shop, we did end up in there, what a crazy place, huge sporting good store with a hotel, and indoor rivers that had fish and even a crocodile. Actually more fun than most museums these days.
Here is a nice close up.
Love all the deer, Elk and moose heads, I’m sure they are all very real
The sign says, you love may be eternal but your lock isn’t, they must come by regularly to remove locks. Meanwhile, once we got to New Orleans – they may not like the locks but look at this.
I understand that in Paris they removed all the locks from the original bridge, time for people to find a new hobby. Anyway back to the bridge.
Part of it was covered, probably necessary on a hot summer day.
Arkansas owns a much bigger part of the bridge.
Because I love images of large metal structures, it is sort of hard to see, but those are the cars, crossing as well.
And a train, everyone crosses at this bridge. there were other people walking along with us, nice to see that people use the bridge.
The river is extremely low, so many of the large cargo ships simply can’t come up or down the river. Someone said that hurricane season brings summer storms to the area – but this year, the only hurricane to make it to the Gulf of Mexico was Ian, that devastated Florida, so it was a very dry summer for the Mississippi basin and it shows.
Arriving in Arkansas, there isn’t a town right there, some sort of nature park.
My feet on Arkansas soil, you just have to take my word for it!
Leah