we are finally back onto the highway around 11. so much for an early start :/ but i am bound and determined to get back on track! we are on I 40 going west to memphis!
we are going to take a little detour to go to graceland, and i am stoked! realistically when will i ever be back this way? and would i forgive myself if i didnt go?! so we drive the 215 miles to visit elvis. we get itno town, and it is unreal, there is elvis presley blvd.
heart break hotel that happens to be on lonely street...
it was too great! not to mention all the shops, and diners and so on. it really was cool.
we get to graceland
and decide that we just want to take some pictures, we dont really need to go in. they wanted alot 38 bucks to go in, and then i couldnt take any of my own pictures. what the crap?! so we went up to the front and parked on the street. i got some pretty awesome pictures!
the fence out front was amazing. borderline overwhelming... it was about 400 feet long, and went all the way across the front of the lawn. at one end it was about 7 feet tall and gradually got shorter twords the other end. i could actually just look over it once you got to the gate. what was so cool about it is that every little square inch of the entire thing was covered in hopes and well wishes, love notes and birthdays, babys named after him, and people who just wanted to pay their respects. layers and layers of ink, paint, crayon, markers, spraypaint, coal, chalk, white out, puff paint and glitter... all of them just wanting to give something. the oldest date i found was 88, but there was so much i couldnt have processed it all.
it was really all i needed. it was an honor just to be there :) HA! anyhow, we snapped some pictures ran into a couple shops and got back on route to where we needed to be. on to arkansas! we shouldnt be too far!
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