Sunday January 3 2010
We got up late… alarm at 8:00. Showered, packed and checked out a little before 9:00… First we went down town in search of Sun Records… having found the birth place of Rock and Roll we moved on towards Graceland… and breakfast… be believed that with all the motels near Graceland a Denny’s would be found nearby… there was none, but there was a Crispy Cream and the hot light was on… coffee and donuts, how good does it get… the Crispy Cream offered free donuts to Elves impersonators and to anyone with a Graceland receipt on the King’s birthday (this Friday, January 9th )
Having eaten we went to Graceland… bought our tickets… got on the shuttle and off to the Mansion… It was great… It is surprisingly middle class… and over the top… all at the same time. We liked it… having toured, we visited the gift shop… Then back on the road… to Nashville…
Along the way we got off to see the Casey Jones Museum which had signs along the highway… I was perplexed… We were in Tennessee, the famous accident happened in Vaughn Mississippi… why a museum here? It turned out he lived here, and they have preserved his house and surrounded it with a tourist mall… beyond the house it was a gift shop in search of a museum, with bus parking.
We reached Nashville about 2:30… Went to the Ryman… took the tour… smelled the “Hillbilly Dust” had our picture taken on stage with guitars…
We tried walking about “The District” n afterward, but it was 18 degrees with a wind… and it was just too cold, so we got back in the car and headed east towards Knoxville… All along the road we saw frozen springs, dipping down hillsides forming large ice falls… really spectacular if it wasn’t so cold. We have had snow or ice along the way since before Williams Arizona, over 2,000 miles so far…
We arrived in Knoxville at 7:25 pm (we had lost another hour when we crossed into the Eastern Time Zone) just after dark, found a motel, (Best Western) found dinner… It was 18 degrees and dropping after dinner… with the wind chill it felt like 13 degrees… we took a swim after dinner.
Tomorrow we may make it to D.C…. If we don’t it won’t be an issue… I don’t have to be there until Tuesday night…
Totals for today, 426.9 miles in 7 hours and 15 minutes of driving
2,575 miles for the trip (so far)
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