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Music, MLK and Mountains
May 31 (Day 31) Memphis We stayed close to Beale St., the musical heart of Memphis, at a guest house called the Talbot Heirs. The Talbot Heirs had been a refurbished apartment building, in the vein of the Hotel Oceana in Santa Monica, so a spacious suite, hip art on the walls and bright colors. The girls loved to romp here and we had a great …
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Memphis - Graceland
This morning we take our leave of Grenada, driving north into Tennessee in damp, cold weather. Highway 51 turned into Elvis Presley Boulevard as we entered Memphis and lead us directly to every Elvis fan’s Mecca….Graceland. Now by this time the rain had stopped, but it was only about 50 degrees and still damp….brrrrr! The shuttle took us from the ticket plaza, across Elvis Presley Boulevard, through ...
We go to see The King
... smaller than I expected. I had heard it was small, but I tend to think small as compared to say Bon Jovi's house (modeled after Versailles - go big or go, well, back home to the gross parts of NJ). This was a modest sized house, by Rock n Roll standards. Somewhat disappointing is the fact that you cannot see the "private" areas of the house (the bedrooms, the infamous bathroom) out ...
Mmmmmm Ribs!!!
... Orleans there are lots of police around, Beale street isn't very big and there are at least police cars at both ends of the street,in new Orleans we only saw one policeman on a segway!
There is some music though but the bars are rammed so we go to one of the quieter ones to get a drink.
We don't stay for to long as we've got an early start tomorrow so say goodnight to my parents and Liz and Brian and walk back to our ...
Graceland
We were going through Memphis already, and I knew Graceland was in Memphis, so I made it the first stop on our road trip. It was awesome to see Elvis' house and all of his stuff. I really enjoyed the experience. We also paid extra to go through his two jets, and his car museum which was totally worth it! After we got finished with Graceland, we drove to Sun Studios, where Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and some other people recorded their albums. We headed out towards Arkansas after ...


