Memphis is a good place to go to get away from too much tech. But that doesn't mean that it can't be fun, quirky, or even geeky.
For instance, A. Schwab's on Beale street has been home to millions of items of questionable utility since 1876. Get your "voodoo powders, handcuffs, clerical collars, saucepans and the largest collection of hats in town" from one of the "cousins" who run the store now.
If you do decide to go to Graceland, consider going for Elvis Week, lovingly called "Death Week" by the locals. It's August 9 - 17, peaking during the candle light vigil on the 15th. It's much more lively during this week than others. You can go to things like the (unofficial) Elvis Impersonator's Contest or the mostly locals only Dead Elvis Ball at the P&H Cafe.
Of course for a real "experience" you need to visit Graceland Too in Holly Springs, Mississippi. This place is everything that Graceland isn't and somehow more. You can come 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so there's no excuse. You'll go, right? Paul McLeod, who lives in Graceland Too and gives the tours, is a character who's collected more junk, err, memorabilia, about Elvis than he knows what to do with. He kept saying that people showed up at 3 am in a limo with girls in bikinis and a man dressed up in a banana suit every 5 minutes during the first half of the tour. Then he pull out a picture of a limo in front of Graceland Too with a guy in a banana suit...so maybe we should believe him when he says he records every channel of television and makes note of every Elvis reference. Or maybe not.
Oh, and one last thing, if you can't get enough of this kind of thing, you should really hop on over to Joni Mabe, the Elvis Babe's Museum which includes a wart of Elvis' as well as pieces that might be his toe nail. It's in Athens, Georgia.
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Memphis is a good place to go to get away from too much tech. But that doesn't mean that it can't be fun, quirky, or even geeky.
For instance, A. Schwab's on Beale street has been home to millions of items of questionable utility since 1876. Get your "voodoo powders, handcuffs, clerical collars, saucepans and the largest collection of hats in town" from one of the "cousins" who run the store now.
If you do decide to go to Graceland, consider going for Elvis Week, lovingly called "Death Week" by the locals. It's August 9 - 17, peaking during the candle light vigil on the 15th. It's much more lively during this week than others. You can go to things like the (unofficial) Elvis Impersonator's Contest or the mostly locals only Dead Elvis Ball at the P&H Cafe.
Of course for a real "experience" you need to visit Graceland Too in Holly Springs, Mississippi. This place is everything that Graceland isn't and somehow more. You can come 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so there's no excuse. You'll go, right? Paul McLeod, who lives in Graceland Too and gives the tours, is a character who's collected more junk, err, memorabilia, about Elvis than he knows what to do with. He kept saying that people showed up at 3 am in a limo with girls in bikinis and a man dressed up in a banana suit every 5 minutes during the first half of the tour. Then he pull out a picture of a limo in front of Graceland Too with a guy in a banana suit...so maybe we should believe him when he says he records every channel of television and makes note of every Elvis reference. Or maybe not.
Oh, and one last thing, if you can't get enough of this kind of thing, you should really hop on over to Joni Mabe, the Elvis Babe's Museum which includes a wart of Elvis' as well as pieces that might be his toe nail. It's in Athens, Georgia.