Graceland....WOW, an excellent tour. The pictures don't do it any justice whatsoever. Unfortunately they don't allow flash photography inside any of the buildings or museums, so just about every picture was blurry and out of focus. Besides that, it was amazing. A really great insight into who Elvis was and how he lived his life. We'd recommend it to anybody. Our next stop was the STAX Museum of American Soul Music. Home to recording artists such as Otis Reading...

Woke up to rain and lots of it. As we set off through Arkansas the weather got steadily worse, making Arkansas look a lot like England. Very green, lots of trees and rolling hills and RAIN!! It finally abated about 40 miles before the Tennessee border. So we got to see cotton growing in the fields and baled up at the sides of the road. That was pretty cool, as none of us had ever seen cotton growing before. Then Jerome and I got to see the Mississippi River for t...

SATURDAY NIGHT - On our way out of our hotel we stumbled upon a Classic Car Rally...(pictures attached). So we spent Saturday evening at the Stockyards in Fort Worth. Had another great meal at Risckys...the catfish was great! Then off to Billy Bob's to watch the bull-riding. It was fun to watch, but very short and sweet. It couldn't have lasted more than 15 minutes in total. The bulls were fairly small as it is a small arena (understandably, due to the fact it i...

.....We spent a day at the Stockyards and in Dowtown Fort Worth. Lots of fun. In fact, we are planning another trip out to the stockyards tonight. Hopefully we'll be able to see some bull-riding at Bill Bob's. Billy Bob's claims to be the largest Honky-Tonk in the world. It is pretty spectacular inside. Very dark, loads of Country Music memorabilia, and bull-riding arena actually in the bar! From the Stockyards we visited downtown Fort Worth. Lots of large buildi...

It's official....the state of Kansas is flat. Not a hill to be seen, just a sea of flatness....oh, and the occasional grain store. The grain stores are huge, (my picture doesn't do it justice) and they are always next to a rail road. Set up to load several rail cars at a time. So from Kansas we headed south through Oklahoma. It wasn't as flat as we expected. In fact it was quite hilly and green, it looked a lot like England. The big surprise was how red the ea...