Super 8 Memphis / Downtown / Graceland Area
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Memphis
We walked down to Greyhound and bought tickets on the 9:45 to Memphis which eventually left about 10:30. Sat across from a hustler and from a loudmouthed drinker who had talked a woman he met in the bar to travel with him to sneak into the Super Bowl in Houston. Caught the bus to the motel which had traded names with a hotel across the road and …
Memphis
Took a local bus to Graceland and did a very professional audio tour. Found a shuttle bus that did a free loop from Graceland to several blues venues so hitched a ride to Sun Studios where nearly everyone who is great has recorded (Elvis, BB King, Jerry Lee Lewis, U2, Roy Orbison and so on) and did a tour. Then to the Gibson guitar factory, a walk …
Gospel, Blues and Southern Fried Chicken
... Beale Street, a tacky mall full of dive bars and eating houses, but very interesting and managed to see a great blues band on a Sunday night.
Today we went to the famous and beautiful Peabody Hotel, they have 5 resident ducks who live on the roof and each day at 11am they are marched into the elevator and over a red carpet into the fountain. They stay here all ...
Doing Memphis right
... it's worth looking at it (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peabody_Ho tel ). If we hadn't been so busy, we would have gone to the roof to see the new duck habitat the hotel has built. In short, there are ducks that live in the fountain in the hotel and have since the 1930s. They were trained later to march from their home on the roof down to the fountain in the morning and back at 5 PM. The ducks have been on the Tonight Show and on Sesame Street. It was ...
Camping on the Mississippi & at Graceland
... on the ceiling, carpet in the kitchen, and the large size of the basement. After we left we went to see the car museum which had a lot of the cars that Elvis owned. He owned 33 cars and motorcycles in his whole life, which is a lot. I was surprised that he had so many because most of them were really expensive, like a Rolls Royce. My favorite car was the pink limo because it was the prettiest and it was high quality. When ...