Today we bid a fond "Farewell" to Jennifer, Jim and Bradley and headed out for Memphis and new adventures. We pulled into Memphis shortly after 4 PM in hot sunshine, about 92 ° F. We found Elvis’s Heartbreak Hotel about half a block from Graceland and checked in. By this time, we had driven a little over 5,000 kilometers so Doug found a Jiffy Lube and got the required oil and filter changes & etc. done. Then we went for a swim in the hotel’s heart shaped swimming pool.
The hotel had a shuttle to the downtown area and Beale Street. This area was inspired after the street by the same name in New Orleans. It is raucous, noisy and wonderful, lined with neon illuminated jazz and blues clubs and restaurants all with music blaring out onto the busy street, thronged with people. The street is closed off to traffic.
We had supper at a typical New Orleans Creole style restaurant, enjoying jambalaya and gumbo and live blues music. After supper, we stopped at Coyote Ugly where the TV show of the same name was taped. They really do have a hundred or more bras hanging from the ceiling above the bar. We also stopped at BB King’s Club where the Chicago blues was live and loud. Diane found it a little too loud and went back out onto the street while Doug enjoyed the atmosphere and a glass of Jack Daniels Tennessee whiskey.
Back to the Heartbreak Hotel on the shuttle at about 10 PM and to bed with two large photos of Elvis looking down at us from the wall above the bed.
The hotel had a shuttle to the downtown area and Beale Street. This area was inspired after the street by the same name in New Orleans. It is raucous, noisy and wonderful, lined with neon illuminated jazz and blues clubs and restaurants all with music blaring out onto the busy street, thronged with people. The street is closed off to traffic.
We had supper at a typical New Orleans Creole style restaurant, enjoying jambalaya and gumbo and live blues music. After supper, we stopped at Coyote Ugly where the TV show of the same name was taped. They really do have a hundred or more bras hanging from the ceiling above the bar. We also stopped at BB King’s Club where the Chicago blues was live and loud. Diane found it a little too loud and went back out onto the street while Doug enjoyed the atmosphere and a glass of Jack Daniels Tennessee whiskey.
Back to the Heartbreak Hotel on the shuttle at about 10 PM and to bed with two large photos of Elvis looking down at us from the wall above the bed.
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