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| We went to Memphis because it was on the Google Maps route and I wanted to see Graceland . But, there's a whole lot more music history in Memphis so we went in search of that too.
Our first stop was the Stax Records Museum. Unfortunately it was closed (on Mondays) so these pictures will have to suffice. |
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This forlorn house sat
silently across the
street from the museum's parking lot.
It is Memphis Slim's
Collaboratory, under
renovation into a not-
for-profit recording
studio and lounge. |
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Next, downtown for the Memphis Rock 'n' Soul Museum .
| While downtown we stopped beside the Mississippi River. This is the view looking west. |
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One of the reasons we headed back north to Memphis from New Orleans rather than continuing along the southernmost US was to see Graceland . Not because we're Elvis fans, but because it's an iconic American place. However, once we found out it would be 36 bucks each for an hour of touring his house and airplanes, we satisfied ourselves with just looking on from the street and doing some trinket shopping - very easy to do since the place is very well touristed-up with a number of shops selling anything you could imagine the guy's name or likeness on. In one shop I found a pop-up book showing the major rooms in his house, so once we saw that we saw all we had to see of the place.
| The wall on the street is inscribed with heart-felt messages from all sorts of visitors from around the world. |
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Time to hit the road again - we have a 7-hour drive to cross the Mississippi River one last time and head west to Oklahoma City, OK .
While we were in the neighbourhood we stopped in Ozark to hopefully get a taste of some food fro the region. Unfortunately being a Monday night the town was mostly-closed, so we had to settle for a Chinese buffet. After dinner I got to the Cabrio to find my key wouldn't unlock (or lock) the driver-side door anymore - one of few things to fail on the car so far. |
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