Most people who know me may remember my fundraising bike ride in 2007, which I did to raise money for MS research.  Well, I’m going to be doing that ride again this year.  My reasons remain the same – knowing people with MS and wanting to help out in some way.  The last time I … Read more

My last full day in Memphis began with the conference, but that finished in the mid-afternoon, so I had a lot of time ahead of me.  I first went to the National Civil Rights Museum.  It’s located South of downtown, in the old Lorraine Hotel – the site of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination. … Read more

The conference I attended included, as part of the registration cost, a group tour of Graceland on the first evening we were there.  I’ve never been an Elvis fan, but I was curious about the place, and it was no additional cost, so I went. Graceland seems to consist of 2 parts.  There is the … Read more

In mid-July, I went on a business trip to Memphis, attending a conference put on by a software vendor.  It was my first time being anywhere in Tennessee.  The person who wanted me to go, and who was in charge of the travel budget, insisted that I should stay in the same hotel where the … Read more