Nashville to Memphis

June 17, 2013: this morning we packed up and said goodbye to the Scott's. we hopped back into Nashville quickly to see Antique Archeology, the American Pickers place in Nasville. It turned out they were closed for filming today! Sort of a bummer but sort of cool. The producer ended up letting us in when they were between takes to look around the shop and it was neat to see them set up to film. Mike and Frank were not there but the girl who runs the Nashville store looked like she was pricing or selling a motor cycle. We found some freight trains nearby that we could explore and then headed to Memphis. We did a drive by of Graceland, just stopping to take a look over the wall at the mansion. The entry fee is too high since we are not die hard Elvis fans.  One funny thing, we've been playing some Elvis tunes to the kids as we headed to Memphis. Casey thought "All Shook Up" was "Moo-shhh-ka". Hilarious. Memphis was a cool little city. Parts of it felt like a ghost town with no one around and abandoned stores everywhere. We walked down to the civil right museum at the site of the Lorraine Motel where MLK was shot. It is a pretty sad and powerful place. There is a woman who was the last resident of the Lorraine motel when she was forcibly evicted to make it a museum. She sits across the street everyday up to 21 hours a day in protest. She was there and her sign said in protest 25 years 153 days!  After we rode the trolley around the city. There is a cool pyramid building like you would see in Vegas, you run along the Mississippi River.  We walked on the pedestrian Beale Street which is set up a lot like Bourbon Sreet in NOLA. These kids called the flippers do the most unbelievable back flip routines down the street for money. We had BBQ at Blues City Cafe on Beale Street. James had a little of everything, fried catfish, ribs, chilie, gumbo, beans and Texas toast. We left after dinner and ended up staying in a motel because the weather was ominous.