My God, what a thread. I'll have to print it out for future reference. I've got a travelling job now, and try to make it fun and educational by hitting a great site or two during my trips.

I second Spaw's idea: I was recently in New Orleans, and drove home(Cleveland OH) via Highway 61, at least til Memphis. I stood at the crossroads, 49/61, taking pictures like a mad man. Drove around Clarksdale a while. It LOOKS like a blues town.

Took pictures that night of Graceland. Graceland to me is: majestic, haunting, democratic, lonely, spiritual, tacky, trashy and drug-addled. Maybe just like America, good and bad.

No one mentioned another shrine in Memphis: Sun Studios. For $10., you can stand in the studio/room where BB, Rufus Thomas, Howlin Wolf, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Charlie Rich and a host of others once recorded.

I agree with comments about battlefields. Nothing like standing on the field. I toured Chickamauga and Antietam recently. I stood on the line that Geo. Thomas held, feeling humble and patriotic, but ruined the moment by answering my cell phone. Oh well.

I would also recommend Lincoln's Birthplace, near Hodgenville KY. I hit that on the way down to New Orleans.

Man, the list is infinite.

Thanks for another great thread.

Spaw, if you're reading: I'm from Cleveland OH, and quite familiar with 77 and points along the way. But what is the Warther museum?

Folks: I am travelling to Sarasota FL the first week of June. Will travel I-71 to I-75....and welcome suggestions.
Thanks
Bill