Blogs from Memphis, Tennessee, United States, North America - page 14

Hello, Monday , today I dropped the family off to go shopping at Walmart while I went and had a yak to the local Dodge dealer.They have some really nice Dodge Challengers over here, theyre like a charger but better. One he had on the lot had a 6.1L Hemi, he reckons they sell one a week. Then I went and bought some stuff from home depot to build me a shelf in my cupbards on my side of the bed. Then I went and picked them up and we found a book shop for the kids. Then we went to a drive in 'Sonic Restaurant' for lunch. We decided lunch was probably better for Josh than tea.So we drove up to a spare booth. The menu is right beside my window, I pressed the call ... read more

Hola Folks! So this is the first entry in my travel blog for my experience in Europe. I'm actually quite excited to be studying at Oxford and touring parts of the continent. For the past few months I've been getting a lot of questions about where I'm going and what I'm doing, so I thought it'd be cool to do a blog so that you lovely people can keep up with my doings Ok so I just finished the first part of the European Studies program which was conducted at the University of the South. I took a class that spanned 1000 years of history of the Middle Ages. It was kind of intense. 3 hours a day in class for 3 weeks! But it was pretty interesting. Sewanee is a little town close to Chattanooga. ... read more

Temp: 27°C - muggy tho. Today we had to be at the coach by 8:30am for our trip out to Graceland. We arrived and jumped on a shuttle over to Elvis's Graceland Mansion. It was such a pretty house. All the inside was still set up as it originally was when he was there, the jungle room, the trophy room, even his parents bedroom. We weren't allowed on the 2nd floor as Elvis never let anyone up there when he was alive so they have decided to keep it that way in his memory. Apparently he bought the house and land for only $100,000, i suppose in those days it was a lot of money but not for him. We also saw the gravestones for Elvis, his twin that died at birth, Jesse, his mums Gladys, ... read more

Memphis - 33°c Somehow I managed to get up early enough this morning to make the bus to Graceland! We departed for Graceland soon after 8am, and Scott and I were definitely still a bit drunk when we woke up after our three and a half hour sleep! We were still giggling as much as we were the night before and running on the adrenalin of the night before too. We arrived at Graceland just before 9am and were some of the first people there. - I guess Kristina wanted to get us there as early as possible to avoid the queues later on in the day. Our first point of interest was to head to Graceland mansion, otherwise known as Elvis Presley’s home. What surprised me first of all as we pulled into Graceland, was ... read more

As usual, had to be on the bus by 7.45am, though we ened up being delayed 15 minutes by someone anyway... Slept on the bus most of the way... Only stopped a couple of times and most weren't that interesting anyway.. We did stop in Little Rock, where Clinton was governer for years and years and years before becoming President. We also stopped in Texarkana, which is situation on the stateline between Texas and Arkansas. Originally, someone thought it was also on the border of Louisiana, and so that's how it got it'sname. Got into Memphis, quickly got ready, then headed just down the road to a minor league baseball game. We had hotdogs and what not for dinner, then went to our seats to watch it... It was kinda boring really... Although we did almost ... read more