Memphis, Tennessee

Friday May 29th, 2015

We went on a coach tour of Memphis with Blues City Tours.  They picked us up at the campground.  I'm not sure we would recommend them as the tour was a little haphazard but we did get to see quite a bit so it served the purpose.

We stopped at the Peabody hotel to watch the famous Peabody Duck March.  They march at 11am in the morning. The pictures are not the best as it was very crowded.

Ducks coming out of the elevator after coming down in it from the top floor

Marching along the red carpet

In the fountain

 They stay in the fountain until they march back to the elevator at 5pm and return to the top of the hotel.

Next stop was Sun Studio,  the birthplace of Rock N Roll.

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Then we stopped at St. Judes Research Hospital. 

Play area

Memorial Garden

Thought of Mum & Dad

We stopped at the National Heritage Area

There were statues of B.B.King and Elvis Presley 

B.B. King had died a few days before we arrived

Outside on the Mississippi River was an old paddleboat

Hernando De Soto or "Dolly Parton" bridge with paddle boat in foreground.

 Next stop was the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel which is where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.

The motel room balcony where he was killed

The bus waiting for us

Supposedly one of the best BBQ in Memphis, we didn't have time to try it

Then on to Beale Street. 

B.B. Kings

Another BBQ

Toilet Seat for sale.  Good job I don't have a house where this would fit anymore

Last but not least was Graceland, home of Elvis Presley.  We didn't go inside but just a drive past.  

On the way

Graceland behind the trees

Wall in front of Graceland that people have signed

The "Kings" plnes

and car

We were going to go here tomorrow but after our brief visit today decided against it.  It is very commercialized and quite expensive, maybe another time but I doubt it.