Holiday Inn Memphis - East Poplar & I-240

... join him and get my groove on a bit (<-who says that these days??...whatever) So I danced with him a couple times taking breaks in between accordingly. The guy selling CD's came over and told Sumner and Ryan that they were the luckiest guys around. The singer of the group took to calling me Shaking Bacon for the dancing I was doing. But I'll tell you what, Felix my dancing man was 63 years old and still had it going on. He had the ...

...Richard Powney has left the country.<br><br>I dropped him off at Dulles airport yesterday and did my usual thing of legging it as quick as I could. I don't like airports. You always have to say goodbye to people that you don't want to have to say goodbye to.<br><br>Anyway, his stay has been brilliant and it's flown by. I think that's a good thing. We've had lots of beers, booze and brewskies and the odd bit of food here and there too ...

... these great artists, some of their instruments and clothing, including Elvis's high school graduation certificate and social security card!<br><br> During the Sun studio tour we were allowed into the recording studio which had the actual microphone that was used for recording back in the early days of the studio. It had the lips and spit of all these great artists all over. You ...

... Piggy Wiggly.<br> In the Evening we went on a 1.5 hour walking ghost tour, We stopped in an alley where in the 1870s during a yellow fever outbreak, 200 people a day died. It go so bad they just left the bodies stacked in the alley for weeks as many as 500 bodies. So ghosts haunt the alley. Stopped by the Orpeum Theater where a little girl was killed crossing the Street to see a show in ...

Today we were in Mephis, spent the morning touring Graceland 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 ...

... The train was about 20 minutes late but left on time. We crashed for the night.<br><br>Mary's Version<br><br>I was glad that Greg didn't want to drive I-65 and I-40 back to Memphis. On the freeways, it was like racing for your life with the big rigs. The route we took was beautiful, rolling hills with lots of green, green, green. We did stop for Greg to take a picture of the tobacco. It was interesting, because he took three pictures. One ...

... with all his moves and sounded so much like him it was amazing. This guy has quite a fan club in Wisconsin: two bus loads from Madison, Wisconsin had come on a trip to Memphis to hear him sing in this club on Beale Street. DAY 11-We are heading out of Memphis, not wanting to come back except maybe to Beale Street. We heard on TV this morning that Memphis was just been listed at the #2 most dangerous city in the U.S., just behind Detroit.

... etc! And he kept offering to photograph me with my own camera in front of all the different rooms. "Taken by a genuine redneck this 'un!" But back to Graceland. It was what you'd expect, although a lot smaller. Not really the ostentatious building I'd expected, and quite homely too. I mean, there was a soft ball room and a shooting range, but in itself the building wasn't OTT. And what I didn't realise was that he's ...

... to for example New York, when I was there last time. It can be annoying when you need to get something done. Often you could be waiting for something for hours if you are lucky, or days. The weather is getting warmer and warmer. The last couple of days it was gorgeous. Come July/August, those are the hottest months, which I have been told, I would be begging for winter to come soon. I have joined a climbing club over here. They meet every Thursday and do some bouldering at ...

... many he owned in his life. There is also a screen showing movies which he was in. Next to that museum is a gift shop with a documentary to lure you in. Next to that is another gift shop (there are at least three) with a small museum of photos. And finally there are the airplanes. They are built for comfort (of course) with the larger one being for Elvis and the smaller one for his wife. They both have beds and are designed to be livable. A final note about the ...