Elvis’s house
Elvis’s living room
After a couple long days of driving solo, and frankly not much else I pick up my friend Peter in Memphis. Peter volunteered to drive back with me “as long as we do some cool stuff along the way”. Downtown Memphis is pretty neat, the city looks like it is in revival mode and it has a neat downtown pedestrian-only row of blues bars w/ the best BBQ pork ribs. On the other hand, Memphis can be pretty scary if you take the wrong road. Graceland is more or less a diamond in the rough. Its bars on the windows everywhere here. The local grocery store’s security guard had a pistol on each side. Yes, the US is still the wild wild west.
This was probably the coolest part of the NC -> CA trip for me – checking out Elvis’s toys. Elvis bought this 1960 lockheed JetStar in ’75 for $900k. He also had a Convair 880 (Equivalent to a Boeing 737) called ‘Lisa Marie’.
If Elvis had one, why can’t I?
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