Route 66 Road Trip: Day Two

Hi again!!

We woke up to a beautiful day in Memphis! Slightly breezy and sunny! Our hotel did not have coffee....ANYWHERE, which I found shocking! So we left as quickly as we could and found a Starbucks. Thank heavens it was open and a drive through, which we found very helpful. So armed with our venti soy lattes, we went back to Beale.

Turns out that we had just missed a Blues competition that past weekend and the music stores were loaded with new artists and their CDs. We found a couple that were just great and bought them for the morning drive. We were hoping to get into the Gibson Guitar factory but all we could do was peak through the windows. After we felt we had enough pictures of us under smiling pigs and next to music stores, we went down to the Mississippi River to take some pictures there. My friend is particularly enthralled with bridges and luckily the Mississippi has plenty. As a realtor, I also admired the southern mansions up on the bluffs. Big porticoes watching the muddy river roll by.

Before heading out of Memphis we had to detour and drove by Graceland. Didn't see the ghost of Elvis, but we do have some nice Harley Davidson T shirts. We didn't spend the time, or money, on a tour but I've done it once before....you have to do it once! and only once! It's not what I expected! I was expecting Liberace and it's really not, but very lavish 50s style.

So the plan was to have lunch in Oklahoma City that day and then go to the National Cowboy Museum, but when we punched the address into my navigator, it said we would arrive at 8pm. I guess I didn't calculate that very well. Oops! :) But we did get out before the tornadoes!
So that night we stayed in Clinton, Oklahoma and closed the only restaurant still open when we arrived at 10pm. Montana Bob's. I think they were relieved when we ordered salads. The funny thing is that the decor was all great pictures of the Grand Tetons...I guess noone has mentioned to Bob that the Tetons are in Wyoming.