If you go to Beale street early you avoid the metal detectors and barricades.  Apparently crime is still very bad in memphis and as I was told ‘the police don’t play.’ They were everywhere. On bike, on foot, on horseback.  It didn’t deter us at all.  We had fun at sun studios, Graceland, Stax, sunset on the Mississippi River, breakfast two days in a row at the arcade and the best chicken for miles for dinner from Gus’s.  I love Memphis and still need to return because there are many places I haven’t time to visit. Plus many more I want to revisit.  Then there are the places I always have to visit…even if it is just a drive-by,