On th’ road Monday mornin' at 9:15 am and plannin’ to stop in Memphis for a night or maybe even two. Boy, I tell you what, Missouri’s bootheel and Arkansas's NE corner are flatter than western Kansas ever thought about bein’. Finally, 90 minutes later we’re crossin’ th’ Mississippi river bridge into Memphis. Traffic traffic, slow ‘er down some JW, we ain’t out on th’ open freeway. Lo and behold, there’s the Graceland RV Campground, right behind th’ Heartbreak Hotel on Elvis Presley Blvd. (Hmm, Wonder if everything down here’s got somethin’ to do with Elvis?)
(Th' trees is buddin' out)
Easy entry into th’ campground and checkin’ in and settin’ up was a breeze. Now, it’s a short 1 block walk to Graceland’s entrance. JW bought tickets for th’ two of us and they gave ol’ JW Senior Citizen AND ex-military discount, right nice of that young lady. We bought th’ Platninum tour which was an hour and a half to two hour tour. Suffice it to say that four hours later we were finally through. Toured Graceland house and grounds, Elvis’s Auto Museum, Elvis’s Airplanes (2 of ‘em), the ’68 Tour and th’ Final Tour. WOW, learned a lot ‘bout Elvis I didn’t know.
When we were in Elvis’s Trophy room, JW overheard one of Elvis’s diehard fans say, “Elvis was the most famous and important man that ever walked on this earth.” Now ol’ JW admits that Elvis was a real good singer and had a lot a fans but “th’ most important man that ever walked on this earth ? ? ?” JW don’t agree with that statement at all, and Elvis himself would probably agree that th’ most important man would’ve been Jesus.
To top th’ day off, we had supper at th’ “Rock N Roll Café”, right next door to th’ Graceland complex.
Oh, just a note, JW still hasn’t put th’ travel lights on th’ car. We’ll see if that happens in th’ mornin’. Later . . .
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