Sunday, July 7, 2019

The First Leg of the Journey

After spending a few days in beautiful but sweltering Chattanooga, we headed to Memphis.  We wanted to squeeze in the last tour of the day for Graceland, before taking an overnight train to Chicago.  This hillbilly spent a a few days in Memphis back when I was just a wee young thing but I've never been to Graceland.  

Graceland was beautiful and we learned many things about Elvis that neither of us knew, like the fact he had an "older" twin brother that was still born.  After visiting the grounds, we got to go onboard his planes.   Wow, he traveled in style!



We still had some time to kill since our train wasn't departing until 10:40p, so we did what a lot of tourist do and headed down to Bealle Street to check it out.   Kind of reminded me of New Orleans.   We stopped and had a great BBQ dinner at Pig, "Pork with An Attitude."

It was time to head to the airport to drop off the rental car and then taxi over to the train station.   We saw fireworks from all over on our way to the station, but arrived at the station just in time to catch the main fireworks show over  the river.   It was spectacular.   Wha an exciting way to end the first leg of the trip, or start the next leg!

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