Tuesday, May 15, 2012


We travelled down the Buford Pusser Highway, we passed up going to the museum and Buford's home, Elvis is on our minds.  Heading for Graceland, we had a personal police escort to Elvis Presley Boulevard by a cop when we asked directions. We are presently listening to Tennesee Ernie Ford sing Sixteen Tons, we watched a coal barge going down the Mississippi, there was a lot more than sixteen tons, looked like thousands of tons to us!  Graceland was amazing, you could feel Elvis in his living room, dining room, pool room, jungle room, and then his swimming pool, handball court and gym, then his  horse paddocks, his airplanes and of course his cars.  He is buried on the property  in his meditation garden along with his mother, father, grandmother and a stillborn brother!  Trish cried throughout the garden tour,  Elvis was special, I stood in line in Halifax for 2 hours to see Love Me tender , his first movie, at 13 years old, then my thirteen year old daughter Karen, and her friend cried when Elvis died, how many entertainers go through two generations like that? We talk a lot about prices, tonight we ate at the Iron Skillet, a truck stop in West Memphis, a three course dinner, with all the iced tea you can drink, what a buffet, total cost 23 dollars for two! Camping right on the ippississiM, in Tom Sawyer RV park,   free wifi, free laundry, showers, everything for $32.00. Barges galore, carrying coal, chemicals, then we seen the American Queen, an actual sternwheeler, it was like a luxery liner, we know one passenger aboard, he was interviewed in front of us at the Elvis Sirius Radio station today at Graceland,  this was Paul Revere and the Raiders famous for Indian Reservation.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Getting closer mile by mile....any idea when y'all expect to arrive in Leesville? You'll recognize your "sign" (LOL)just before you head down B and G Loop!!!! Andy and Lucy