The road to Elvis

I am going to break up our last few days into separate posts to keep them somewhat coherent. On Tuesday the 25th we headed out from Canton, CT and made our way to Kim's sister's house in Purcellville, VA. Along the way we stopped at Gettysburgh for an abbreviated auto tour around the battlefield. I can only imagine the utter horror of the battle that took place. The scale was utterly unbelievable. We snapped a few photos including this highly sarcastic one...


After a night of Mexican food and playtime with our niece, Kate, and nephew, Asher, we woke early for the twelve hour trip to Memphis. The ride South through the Shenandoah was pretty spectacular and very reminiscent of Southern VT. The ride through Tennessee was also quite pretty and much more enjoyable than the run through Western PA and Ohio that we would have had to endure going the Northern route. We arrived in Memphis only to discover that Graceland is pretty much smack dab in the ghetto and didn't offer a lot of dining options. We were too tired to drive downtown to Beale street for BBQ and instead settled for road food of the Taco Bell variety (yuck) and a restless nights sleep waiting for Graceland to open.