Tennessee

Elvis, the Grand Ole Opry, bbq and Don and Linda……says it all! We started our week at Graceland RV park next to the parking lot at Graceland. Graceland was the home of Elvis Presley and now extends to buildings across the road that house 200,000 square feet of Elvis’s stuff including his cars, planes and collection of jump suits. Elvis was not on our playlist in our musical years but his influence extends to so many bands and music is what it is because of him.

Elvis bought Graceland in the late 50’s and Redecorated frequently. Since he died in 1977 he decor is forever 70’s! We only toured the house and planes but for more money you could see it all.

Elvis has been gone over 40 years but the lines of people from all over the world that come to see Graceland shows how popular he still is.

Next stop was Nashville! We stayed near the Opryland Hotel at a KOA park. Derick had a board meeting at the Hermitage hotel downtown so we had 2 great evenings with some fun people. We did some shopping, some BBQ, and saw a Grand Ole Opry radio show at the Ryan Auditorium.

We saved the best stop for last! We have known Don and Linda for over 25 years ! We see Linda in Vermont for the Vermont Captive Conference each summer and sometimes at other conferences around the US. They have come to stay with us at our camp a few times and have invited us to their house in Tennessee. Little did they realize we would show up with a 40 ft motorbike and a dog! They were very gracious and even parked on the lawn so we could fit in their driveway. They were gracious hosts and even promised to wake us up if a tornado was coming! ( we decided to stay in their guest wing so they wouldn’t have to come outside to save us). Luckily the weather did not go crazy and we had a great time!