Walking in Memphis

On Monday, we took the Blues City Tour up to Memphis to go to Graceland.  The tour got off to a rocky start when the bus overheated at Harrah's where they were picking up a couple of other people.  They sent another bus down from Memphis for us and we were on our way again.  It only delayed us about an hour.

A few things were a bit different than the last time we were here but mostly Graceland lives on as it always has.

It's amazing how many singers have been influenced by his music.  Elvis lives on even 35 years after his death.  He will always be the King of Rock and Roll.

When our tour bus driver picked us up at Graceland, we had an hour before he had to pick up other people at a different location.  He asked us if we wanted to drive by some other places in Memphis and of course we said yes.  

He took us to the Stax museum.  I didn't even realize that Stax records was in Memphis.

He drove us by the church where Dr. Martin Luther King gave his famous "mountain top" speech.

He drove us to the Lorraine Hotel where Dr. King was assassinated.  The Lorraine is now the home of the National Civil Rights Museum.

There are few places we have traveled to that have tugged at my heart and brought tears to my eyes...President Kennedy's grave, Robert Kennedy's grave, the World Trade Center site, the Flight 93 memorial, the Vietnam Memorial.  And now the place where Dr. King died.  In my prayer here I asked God to keep us moving forward.

It is a glorious, sunny morning here in Mississippi, the sun is just streaming through the windows and I'm practicing my gratitude.