Thursday evening reprieve in Nahsville,TN
Arrived in Nashville safe and sound. Worked in the library (really nice building and work space) And there was no way to escape a little bit of Nashville's (very wet) night life 🤣
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Wednesday night crazy storm of the century in Memphis
This picture is just the beginning of the heaviest downpour ever recorded in Memphis history. After a all night of constant thunder and literal deluge, we found an opening of three hours of calm weather that allowed us to leave in a hurry to seek shelter in Nashville, outside of the storm's path, and on our route. It was 5 am, Bixente was awake monitoring the situation, and while we were supposed to stay in Memphis for another day, we just took off in the wee hours and beat the weather (mostly) to the seat of Tennessee. The point was to avoid being stuck in Memphis for days and keep our schedule to make it to New England by Saturday (April 5). And it worked! As of Saturday, the same storm is still stuck in Memphis, leaving unimaginable amounts of water that make road travel very dangerous,if not completely impossible! The message from aBC a little after we left the city: " This is a life-threatening situation. Do not attempt to travel unless you're attempting to flee ri...
Viva went to visit the Lorraine Motel where almost to the day Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4th, 1968. MLK (as the national holiday in the U.S. is now celebrating him and the ideas he championed) was a major figure of the civil rights movement in the 1960s. His life and the events that framed his era are displayed powerfully in the motel-turned-museum where he shot dead. Even as we travel lightly through this part of the country, it is impossible to ignore the heaviness of the history that shaped it.