Memphis, Tennessee....take a right on......

Go past.....

Turn onto....

We are now settled into Graceland RV Park, across the street from Graceland...

Sun Studio, the birthplace of rock and roll.  The original recording studio in Memphis where Stars like Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and others started their careers. It is still an active recording studio in the evenings where new stars are waiting to be "born"...

The "Million Dollar Quartet...Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis

Unknown new star waiting to be born...

Downtown Memphis is home to the Rock and Soul Museum, provides the history of how the Blues, Country, Soul and Rock and Roll blend together and the Legends of the music.

Across the street is the Gibson Guitar Factory where we saw how the guitars are made, both specialty orders and standard instruments.  You can wander into their show room and see how easy it is to purchase your own Les Paul Guitar with easy to learn lesson packages.  We escaped without guitars....at least for now.

Wandered up and down famous Beale Street....

Visited the National Civil Rights Museum located at the site of Martin Luther King's assassination
at the Lorraine Motel near downtown Memphis. The museum and the area is under a 27 million dollar renovation. Parts of the Museum are housed in the boarding house from which James Earl Ray fired the rifle shot.

Room 306 and the balcony where MLK was shot

Front of the boarding house where Ray was staying...

The boarding house bathroom window where the rifle shot originated from.

The lunch counter scene that started the Movement...

Headed to Birmingham....