2017.12.25-Memphis, TN

2017.12.25-Memphis, TN

Merry Christmas!!

We started our Memphis tour with breakfast at Brother Juniper’s, which is a small dive, but had delicious food!  While there, we met one of the waitresses who had lived in Boerne!!  Small world.  She suggested we go to the Peabody Hotel to see the duck march.  Duck march?

Every day at 11am the Peabody Duckmaster leads 5 ducks down from the roof to the lobby fountain.  The ducks stay in the fountain until 5pm when they march back upstairs.  The Duck Palace is on the hotel roof and has a screened in area where the ducks stay when they are not in the fountain.  The ducks are on march duty for about 3 months, then they are returned to the wild.

While downtown at the Peabody we walked around Beale Street, where all the jazz dives are.  It was cold and there was a wind, so we didn’t stay too long.  We did see the outside of the Gibson guitar factory, but it was closed for Christmas.

Of course, while in Memphis, we took the Graceland tour.  It was interesting to think that Elvis actually lived there and walked the halls.  He also died there.  So sad.

We also toured one of his airplanes, the Lisa Marie.  Decadence is the only word I can come up with to describe the plane.  The sinks were flecked with 24 carat gold and the seat belts were gold plated.  My, my, my…

One story they told us was that Elvis realized Lisa Marie had not seen snow.  So he gets his family and who knows how many others, flies to Colorado so Lisa Marie can play in the snow for a few minutes, then flies back.  WOW!

Tomorrow we leave Memphis for the Jackson MS area to visit with some family and then on to Vicksburg MS to quickly view the Civil War battlefield.  After that stop we’ll head back to Texas.