The Turner Family

I'm going to try to post to the blog even though we only have dial-up as an Internet connection. We stopped at a couple of noted barbecue places on the way south. The first was the Rendezvous in downtown Memphis. We had attempted a stop there last year, but they were closed on New Year's Eve - hard for us to fathom. There are other things that are unique about the Rendezvous. The published address is 52 S. 2nd St, but you won't find it there. That's a ten story downtown building, but the entrance doesn't look as if it has been used in years - and it hasn't. The sign on the door says to go the alley in back of that building. Sure enough, as you round the corner into the alley the sweet smell of smoking meat fills the air around you. The Rendezvous is in the basement of the building - the only entrance is from the alley, and it's been that way since 1948. The other unusual thing about this smokehouse, is that they cook all their meats over charcoal. So the smo...

Our New Year's trip to the UP was extended by a day, when high winds Saturday on the Mackinac Bridge flipped a snowmobile trailer and closed both southbound lanes of traffic. They couldn't remove the trailer because it would just tip over again, so they chained it to the guardrail, where it sat the next day. This is what it looked like when we finally did get across Sunday morning.