Day 9. Mile 1600. Forrest City, AR.

After getting a decent breakfast at diner just across the street from the motel in Nashville, I started driving towards Memphis. About half an hour after entering Tennessee I took an exit to a gas station to take leak, but got distracted by a sign to the Hidden Lake. That sounded like a much better place to pee than in than a gas station. I started walking.

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I like hiking. It makes me feel very primal. I saw a bird that was mostly blue, and I thought - I shall call it “Bluebird”! then I saw one that was completely red and I named it “Redbird”, but somehow it didn’t feel right.

I thought I found the Lake.

But that wasn’t it. I walked some more. Ah, that’s more like it.

Then I walked all the way around. This is from the opposite side:

It seemed like I was supposed to keep going around if I wanted to get back. So where the hell was I?

Then I saw this old ruined building, and this old man wandering around.

I entered the building, guessed where the bathroom used to be and peed there. I then talked to the old man and learned that the nearest town is Pegram, and that there is plenty of wild life around, like deer and snakes. There were 4 deer in his backyard just this morning. This never happened to me, I said. Deer are a very rare sight in your backyard in Paris. Or Boston. Or even Yavne. a Minute later, I saw a deer. Such a majestic animal.

I Left the hidden lake and continued to drive to Memphis, not before stopping in Pegram for fuel and to see this on a back of a car:

I finally got to Memphis and drove to Graceland. There’s nothing to see from the road. I just drove on and got to the 2nd street, where there are plenty of bars and music.

I had a couple of beers in two street show, and decided I had enough.

I decided to move on. There was a storm coming, so I just drove a little further until I hit Forrest City, AR. I got a room in a Super 8 Motel, and  went to get dinner just a a few blocks from there, at Pop’s place.

Bact at the motel I noticed the desktop computer in the lobby that had three A4 signs around it that said “Absolutely no one under 18 near this computer”. If it was up to me, no one under 18 would be near anything at all.