Smoke Trail Motorcycle Tour: Riding the Blues Highway from Memphis to New Orleans on Indian Motorcycles

If you’re the sort of motorcyclist who likes to “strafe corners,” a trip down Highway 61 from Memphis to New Orleans will probably save you a lot of money on ammo. There are a few gentle curves along the Mississippi, but most of the corners in this land of bayous and cotton fields are crossroads, both literally and figuratively.

So why go there?

Well, I suppose the answer for some of us would simply be: the music.

This here's a tale of Pilgrims and Indians on the loose in the land of Barbecue, Blues, and Bayou Country.