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Memphis Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Memphis, United States
Memphis
Our first destination after South America was Memphis. We stayed with Anne Marie's cousins and experienced some good ol' southern hospitality. We only stayed for 4 days but Anne Marie talked non-stop with her cousin the entire ...
On the road again...
... ago and the fear that has carried with me-not to mention it smelled bad! Finally, we made it across the Mississippi River into Memphis. After a slight detour through the city, we found our destination-the Red Roof Inn. Now, we may be quick to ...
Our Stay in Memphis
... built by the Exchange and is just spectacular. There are also museums devoted to the African American southerners in Memphis—there is an Underground Railroad Museum and a Civil Rights Museum. Memphis seems to be trying to tie ...
A Homeless Day in Memphis
... ; I tested that theory and all I have to say is that is was nothing to rave about! The most individual thing about Memphis were some of the building fronts, as in some building were only fronts with nothing behind but overgrown valleys. They were quite ...
Memphis
One of the first things I see driving into downtown Memphis is a somewhat comic pyramid intended to create a symbolic link to the Nile Delta. Why even bother going to Egypt now? I´ve been looking forward to visiting a ...
Elvis Lives
We caught the 17 hour overnight bus to Memphis. We had to change buses in Atlanta and I ended up on a packed bus with a woman leaning all over me sleeping. She mumbled she had been travelling for 5 days, I believe that she was on drugs. Eventually I ...
Shaking at the beginning, shaking at the end
... . I have worked out that a taxi is more expensive (nearly double the price) than taking an interstate bus, go figure that. Memphis is very nice and hot. Lots more shops and restaurants (I use that term lightly) here than in Birmingham. Unfortunately ...
Elvis has left the building!!!
... where he was buried, viewed all of his cars, and toured his 2 airplanes. Wow, he certainly did live the life!!! We explored Memphis for a while but being a Sunday afternoon it was very quiet. Well, that's it so far......we are off today headed for Little ...
Memphis: Music and Civil Rights
... history of rock; and "older" women who idolized Elvis in their teens. Another site that I visited in the early 1970's in Memphis was the site where Rev Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in 1968--the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel. At that time ...
Graceland/Elvis Presley's Estate in Memphis, TN
Opened yesterday morning at Graceland, the estate Elvis Presley lived and is buried. Here are a few ...
Journey through the mid south.
... flip from California as a good portion of the population here is made up of people of African American decent. Whilst in Memphis, I got my serious "man vs, food" pants on and conquered some seriously ridiculous cuisine. Beale street in downtown memphis ...
Soul Food!
... guys we met, Al, invited us out with his friends one night. They took us around to four different bars and we got to see Memphis in a whole different way. Al, Lindsey, Shannon, and Ben were all a lot of fun. Today we stopped by a bike shop, Outdoors ...
Well, hello Memphis...
... and restricted access ( nor his airplanes, cars, private rooms), but since we are probably never going to come back to Memphis, we bought the tickets, got our tour guide around our neck and waited for the trolley. In Graceland we saw the living room, ...
Soul of the South
... facts and mysteries surrounding the assassination. Next on the agenda was a stop at the Gibson Guitar Factory. At their Memphis location, Gibson manufactures arch-top guitars such as B.B. King's famous "Lucille." It was a very interesting view ...
25 - 26 July 2010
... some other travellers they say you need a rest once a week!!!! Now for the Greyhound experience, we decided to leave Memphis a day early and head to New Orleans. Atfer catching our fume intoxicated taxi to the bus station, and waiting for an hour ...
Day 11
Hi Guys Well, we are in Memphis TN. Tomorrow we will be going to Graceland, to see ELVIS!!!!! We will have lots of pictures for you. I know I said St Louis, MO but traffic was terrible and well, things weren't good for Missouri, so we ...
UHaul Pick Up/ Short Family Visit
Made good timing from chatt to Memphis. Had dinner with colleen and chris. thanks so much! Watched true blood and hung out with the nephews. Then we enjoyed a hot sleeping pad at grandma lela's and grandpa ...
Day One---Flying down to the other hemisphere!
Friday--We had a great send off! We arrived at the airport at 2:30 ready for our 5:00 flight. Instead we caught a 3:45 flight and headed to Dallas. The earlier flight allowed more time for Duncan to practice his new balloon tying skills. Not bad for ...
Rainy Day Down Memphis Way
... I haven't gone mad and am not thinking of myself as two distinct people with the same name. Getting There Getting to Memphis was a challenge because our GPS did not recognize the major interstate that incessantly appeared on signs pointing us to ...
The hub of the known shipping universe.
A nice day here in Memphis, weather in the 70's and a spectacular sunset. I am looking forward to tonight's trip to ...
Memphis!
Tennessee--Memphis, Home of the Blues
... the time-honored tradition. The drinks in the lobby bar are expensive to subsidize the entertainment. Our impression of Memphis: very sketchy, run down, not well maintained, seriously reflecting the impact of "white flight", very threatening, ...
28th July - From cowboys to the blues
... and Louisiana before the boundaries were moved). We crossed the Mississippi river as we headed into Tennessee and our stop for 2 nights, Memphis. With everyone dolled up and ready to hit Beale St, we were taken to a place called Alfred's for dinner ...
Graceland
... up, hooked up, and headed for Graceland. Our stay in Memphis was only so we could go to Elvis's mansion. Having been to Memphis before, we didn't much want to get caught up with the little old ladies brigades and throngs of crazy tourists to be found ...
Day 6: Destination - Memphis
... famous Beale Street. We thought that is must have been a festival or something, but apparently this is every weekend night in Memphis. 3 blocks closed to car traffic, with police barriers set up around the perimeter. But once inside, it was one huge ...
day In Memphis
... where Elvis lived, They allow you to take pics inside so took lots. In the afternoon we went on a tour called backbeat tours of Memphis. The tour guide played a guitar and sang, We all had shakers and tamborins, so it was a noisy tour for 3 ...
Mesmerized In Memphis
... greatness in at least these things. And as I discovered on a recent trip there, one would not be disappointed. Sure, I'd been to Memphis before. I worked in the music business for a few years as a live sound guy and tour manager, so of course I'd ...
Day 33 Unpeel the Beale
... , and a fantastic lay preacher. Not a traditional gospel church but still an authentic southern experience. The trip down to Memphis was not that fantastic, the scenic route we chose was the Natchez Trace Parkway, after the Blue Ridge Parkway, it ...