Road Trip Phase Four: The End of the Road
The last leg of our trip took us across the Mississippi. Our first stop in the "East" (at least, what seems like the east to a girl from California) was Memphis. The best part about Memphis was the food. No joke. We made a pledge not to eat any fast-food McDonald's type junk the entire trip so that we could appreciate all the local fare, and Memphis was the best pay-off. We stopped off at Leonard's for BBQ the night we came in, and then went over to Uncle Lou's Fried Chicken after visiting Graceland the next day, and both were awesome. I think I could have eaten about a million of the biscuits at Uncle Lou's. I am salivating right now just thinking about it.
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| Mmmmmm....ribs |
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| Can you tell that I'm in love with that biscuit? |
Graceland was an....interesting place. Before I went I imagined lots of pink and aqua and Formica and other 50ish things, but apparently it was all redecorated in the 1970s. Kitschy, but not my kind of kitschy. The best part was the free car show going on in the parking lot.
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| Paisley Carpet in the Kitchen? Honestly Elvis, what were you thinking? |
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| I bet this monkey gave Lisa Marie nightmares. |
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One of my life goals is to buy an awesome Corvette when Dave and I are retired (or maybe as soon as my last child moves out). I figure it will be a very practical purchase, since it's a two-seater.
After Memphis we went up to Nashville and visited my Uncle Cleve. He took us to the Country Music Hall of Fame and to Andrew Jackson's house. I, of course, loved the latter and was super mad that I forgot the camera and couldn't take lots of pictures that I could potentially use in a class power point (yes, these are the types of things I think about on vacation). After spending a few days relaxing and taking at much-needed break from driving at Cleve's, we drove down to Gainesville in one day!
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| Here's us at our new place! |
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| Our road trip really wasn't complete until we went from the Pacific to the Atlantic, so as soon as we could we drove out to beach and stuck our feet in the ocean, just to make it official. We have arrived! |
So that's basically our road trip, and now that I'm actually caught up I can hopefully start writing about all of our Floridian adventures. In fact, if I'm to be honest, one of the reasons I've been motivated to catch-up is so I can write all about the fireworks I'm going to shoot off tomorrow! I love the fourth of July, and to paraphrase a favorite TV show my favorite way to celebrate my love of my country is to blow up a very small piece of it. I am very excited, the ones they have here would be so illegal back home!
