We stayed at what can only be described as THE worst hotel (unanimous decision, well after NOLA anything was going to be bad) which had a guitar shaped swimming pool...... 'nuff said! The reason for visiting Memphis - Graceland, of course!!! So, a VIP tour of Elvis Presley's mansion, aeroplanes and car museum beckoned.......
The first thing that struck me was how small the house was - I was expecting some 50 room mansion!
Lots of pictures below from the house, museum and aeroplanes and cars.
Another sitting room at the rear of the property and a pool table in the basement (my - that's Cae - favourite room. The walls and ceiling in the pool table room are ruched/pleated material. My God, the amount of material needed but it was exquisite albeit VERY 70's)!!!
Elvis has left the building! We piled back into the wagon and headed for Nashville. And, once again we decided to get off the highway and visited another Civil War site, Shiloh.
As we were driving to Shiloh, all along the roadside there were markers indicating a battle had taken place, or a canon, a memorial. It was a very interesting site, not only because of the inumerable memorials scattered around but there was also a burial site/graveyard, a museum and a bookshop. A thought provoking visit.......
Shiloh done, we headed to Nashville for the night.
Day 4 is Nashville, Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge http://nomadicfridays.blogspot.com/2016/07/road-trip-part-3-nashville-to.html
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