May 22, 2015 through May 24, 2015 Memphis TN

Friday, May 22, 2015 through Sunday May 24, 2015

Day 1 (May 22^nd)After a short discussion we decided that we would leave the next morning between 7-8am.  Jeff had already dumped his tanks so we had to do ours the next morning.  We let Jeff know that we were pulling out and they met us at the entrance to the park at about 730am and we were off to Memphis.  Memphis was about a 5 hour ride away.  Not a long day of driving.  The weather was clear and the traffic wasn’t too bad.   We arrived within a 1.5 mile of our campground when we were stopped by a long train stuck on the tracks.  So the guys unhooked the cars, turn the RVs around and we went another way.  HINT:  double check your GPS.  They are not always right.  Ours sent us into a residential area and it was programmed for an RV!!  Go figure.  We had made reservations at T.O. Fuller State Park.  We had pull thru sites.  We noticed right away that the noise which sounded like white noise was pretty loud.  It was the Cicadas.  It was kind of nice to have our own symphony from nature. I of course had to take a picture of them so I did.  When I got up I cracked and I mean cracked my head on the bedroom slide.  It put me on my butt.  I ended up with about an inch cut on my head but thank goodness didn’t need stitches.  This is the first time for me of hitting the slide.   We set up, had lunch and then we were off to tour Graceland.  Can’t go to Memphis and not see Elvis’ house.

Jeff & Amy's site at T.O. Fuller State Park

Our site

Graceland

Elvis's Living Room and Music Room

One of stained glasses in meditation garden

Elvis's grave 

Elvis's grave with pond with fountains behind

Day 2 (May 23^rd) Mike woke up deciding that he wanted to take a walk.  So he called Jeff and I decided to go also.  We walked all over the state park and surrounding roads.  We ended up with a 4.5 mile walk not bad.  We had breakfast made by Chef Jeff of pancakes and bacon.  I was really hungry.  We were then off to see the Peabody ducks.  Everyone should do this once and the best part it is FREE!!!  I think that the most enjoyable part of this was the Duck Master telling the history of the Peabody and how the ducks came to be.  We then went riding downtown Memphis taking some pictures along the way.  I do enjoy taking pictures of buildings, flowers, and anything having water in it.  You get the idea anything that seems interesting or unusual.  Brace yourselves.  We ended up at Mud Island Park.  It is a small peninsula surrounded by the Mississippi and Wolf River.  Riverwalk is an exact scale model of the Lower Mississippi River from Cairo, Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico,  954 miles to be exact.  They have mapped 20 cities along the way.  We walked around the complete display learning some history, geography and fascinating facts about the Mississippi River.  It was a very nice afternoon.  Off in the distance we saw a huge Bass Pro Shop shaped like a giant stainless steel pyramid so we decided to see if they had some good sales.  Nope but the catfish sample was excellent!  We got home around 5pm completely exhausted.  All in all we had walked about 10 miles for the day.  Holy cow did my feet hurt!!  Tomorrow is going to be a rest day before we start our 15 hour drive to San Antonio.

Duck Master

Look at all the people to see the Peabody's ducks

Ducks on the red carpet

Picture from the balcony

Bronze dogs at the Peabody Hotel Lobby

Pretty carriage

St Peter's Church

Fire Museum of Memphis

Waterfall wall feature on Main St

Sterick Building

I like this

A Mural

Water fountain at Min St Trolly station

Bridge over Mississippi River

Mississippi River

Arkansas side of bridge

Tennessee side of bridge

Mud Island River Park

Monorail

River steam boat

Looking down on part of Riverwalk

Memphis skyline from Mud Island

Stainless Steel pyramid -Bass Pro Shops

People are actually up on that ledge-line was too long for us to wait--Pretty Cool!!!!

Day 3(May 24^th) As I said yesterday today was going to be a rest day.  Right!  I started out writing for the blog, doing laundry and cleaning the RV.  How is that rest.  At least my feet feel better after a good night’s sleep.  We went to the grocery store to pick up a few things and to get a hat pin from Hard Rock.  We chilled for the rest of the day talked about the trip to San Antonio.  Mike and I tried once before to go to Texas while my brother in law lived there but we lost our cars rear end and never made it new territory.  We agreed that we would leave between 8 and 9 the following morning and stop just past Dallas.