Memphis

Memphis! Amanda's birthday! She wanted to see Graceland. She wanted to see Elvis. And so we went, and we saw.

Beautiful weather, great food. The National Civil Rights Museum was worth the trip. And I loved Sun Studios (where Elvis and Johnny Cash and current artists like U2 still record music today). The economy has hurt the city (second poorest in the US) and the people aren't very nice. They say everything with sugar, but nothing they say is very sweet.

Amanda and I on her birthday. We went to this really great steak house and from the outside it looked very fancy, but then we went inside and it felt more like we were going to a picnic. Memphis on a whole felt like a trip back to another time, not what either of us expected. And that's both good and bad. But it was just great to be with an old friend (even though we're still young!)