Elvis Lives?

Friday – almost to TN
8:00am – The Ramada Inn is the first decent continental b-fast we have had. The highlight being the biscuits. Bill taught me the trick of nuking then for 20 seconds before applying butter ~ yum!
8:30 – We gas up and head to the legendary home of Elvis.
8:45 – Hello Tennessee!
10:00am – Ok, so Graceland wasn’t what we expected. $5 gets you into the parking lot. A minimum of $22 will get you a tour of the house – blah!!
We took pics from across the street and perused the gift shop. After sending off a few post cards we hit the road.
Bill mentioned that we were 5 miles from Mississippi. We figured that if we were that close we might as well add another state to our trek. So we buzzed down the road to MS, which was rather uneventful and headed back up Elvis Presley Blvd to get some covert shots of the famous house and gates. I wonder what they would have done if we hopped the stone wall?
Onward to Nashville; we are planning to lunch at the Hard Rock Café and buy more crap… I mean schwag.
11:40 – Alex has conquered the 1lb bag of beef jerky ~ it only took AZ-TN to do it!
1:00 – We stopped in Jackson, TN at Casey Jones Town. It has a train museum and a little strip mall with a cute “old town” façade. After taking some video footage and fun pictures posing as train engineers we went over to the Old Town Restaurant. Our visit was complete after noshing on “Kracklin Corn Bread”. About 100 miles to Nashville. 4:48 – We had a late lunch in Nashville at a Hard Rock Café. They has very yummy mac & cheese – it was twisted and had roasted peppers in it. We then bough the required schwag – Alex bought me the pink ribbon pin I was eyeballing. After picking up several glasses and fun t-shirts we were ready to go. We checked out the decorated guitars on the water front (similar to the fish in Baltimore and cats in Fredericksburg) before heading out of town.
4:53 – We passed the “Original Bigfoot”. After taking a few more pictures we hit the road and promptly get stuck in traffic. The notion of leaving Nashville near rush hour didn’t strike us. The last 5 days of driving along a ½ empty interstate has skewed our prespective.
There was a garland of bras lining Broadway as we made our way to the highway – must me some kind of event. Candi is bored and makes a variety of faces at Bill who is very intent on the road.
7:29pm – We cross over into the Eastern Time zone and loose another hour. At least it is for the last time. 48 miles to Knoxville ~ more fun with elevation & popping of the ears.
10:00pm – We get into Knoxville and crash for the night. Tomorrow will be an early start.