Memphis

And here we are at Graceland! Unbelievable! I cannot really consider myself a fan and yet I feel very strongly towards Elvis, he is the King, he changed the music forever, he really had THE GIFT, that only few others had.

We got the VIP ticket that allows you to visit all the exhibits and enter the mansion from the main door!!! Absolutely worth it! Awesome!

In the house you can only visit the first floor, but it is really something, you can feel his spirit, you can imagine all the people hanging around, the kitchen always in use, the music and the TV on all the time!

Here's the living room

And below on the right Elvis's parents room, up on the right Priscilla and Lisa Marie and on the left Elvis's parents

Here is the dining room, the kitchen and the TV room

And finally the ethnic room, the jungle room and the office where Elvis's father was working for his son

Then we have the room with his records and his awards plus few garments of his, like the soldier uniform

And the suit when he got married to Priscilla

And the suits he wore in the 68 TV special

Here below is the racquetball room and few other suits that Elvis wore while performing in Las Vegas

And before to go and have a look at the other exhibits and the Lisa Marie airplane let's pay our respect

Elvis rest in peace next to his parents, on his grave there is a brief eulogy written by his father at that time, I still have on my mind a particular sentence of it “God saw that he needed a rest and called him home to be with him”

As I said with VIP ticket you also get to see the two airplanes that Elvis purchased, the small is the Hound Dog II and you can see it here below

 The big one is the Lisa Marie

 Here below is the guest bathroom and the living room

 And here there are the dining room and the bedroom with its own closet

Here below there are other suits from other exhibits and the Grammy Award and the belt Elvis was wearing during his Las Vegas performances

Finally we have also seen Elvis's cars! Including the famous Pink Cadillac, that he bought for his mother

I definitely enjoyed this experience and I really hope the future generations will keep it up with it! Graceland isn’t just the King’s house, it is an historic place!

In the afternoon we have decided to go downtown, it only takes 15 minutes from Graceland and you can easily find a parking space. We have been walking along the famous Beale Street

Then we have moved to the Sun Studio! Elvis recorded here his very first song, Johnny Cash and B.B. King recorded here, and Jerry Lee Lewis recorded Great Balls of Fire here! Even the U2 recorded here for their album Rattle and Hum!

Here below you can see the original ceiling left like that so that it is still possible to record with 50' sound, also in this picture below Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Parker (one they met in the Studio by chance and Sam Phillips recorded it and pictured it)

Final stop of the day, the Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated on April the 04^th 1968. How can I hold my tears, knowing that right here in this spot, in just few seconds it was prematurely ended the life of what I consider the greatest leader of our time. He was true, he really believed in his cause and in the power of his words, he completely dedicated himself to the Civil Right Movement, he gave up himself so that we could all have a better world!

For dinner we have chosen Marlowe’s, unfortunately I have to say that since we left Atlanta, between the food on the road and the food here in Memphis, we have been eating very very bad… I really don’t want to state the obvious, or be negative, or closed mind, I have been eating everywhere and taste all sorts of different things, the more particular the better, but it is sadly true that here in the US almost everything is franchised, pre-done, fast food and for me this is horrendously wrong. Everything is standardized and the quality is really else where...

And tomorrow New Orleans baby!!!