Sam&Alice's Photos:
Kentucky to New Madrid

Updated on September 11, 1999

Here are pictures from the valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

The locks at Kentucky Dam across the Tennessee River. The dam is 8,700 feet long with an average 90 foot head.

Paducah is renovating its downtown old town, a collection of three and four story brick buildings.

We drove along the Natchez Trace to Nashville

We had a late lunch at the NASCAR cafe.

We came upon this beautiful moth on the side of the washroom. It was about six inches across.

This is the remains of the old trace; you can just see where the ruts were through the trees.

Elvis is a center of attention at the Memphis Visitor Center.

Beale Street was quite interesting and old but not really what I expected.

This is the Memphis skyline coming from the west across I-40.

This is a picture of Mud Island with the I-40 bridge and the Pyramid in the background.

We took a very pleasant boat trip down the river a ways. During the first part the captain gave us a running commentary on what we were seeing.

We road the trolley around the downtown area

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And road the monorail to Mud Island.

There you can look down at the five block long replica of the Mississippi River.

We visited Graceland and saw the tomb of Elvis. Emotional!

And we made it to New Madrid where we could look out across the river to where the old town used to be.