Visiting grace land

I stayed in West memphis, the problem with this choice of hotel is that in order to get to Graceland I had to struggle through 45 minutes of traffic crossing Mississippi.
I persevered, it took me about 45 minutes to cross the Mississippi. Once I was on the Eastern side, I got off the freeway as soon as I could. 
I found a place to park, and since it was already 8:20. When I parKed. I knew I would not make it in time to get, Walk up tickets for the tour, so I booked the tour on the phone.
I drove to graceland I booked the tour for 11 o'clock and it was not quite 9 when I got to graceland so I parked in a nearby shopping center to contempla it live still shopping. Sit in tour stop at McDonald's here use. Then I drove around the neighborhood.  To find a place to park near the graceland where? I wouldn't have to pay for parking.
I walked over 2 gas station and got a Gatorade. And then I walked back to graceland I walked to the guard shack at the gate and the lady there told me I needed to go back across the street and up into the graceland entertainment.  Center to get on the bus to come on to the site so I did that.
I went to take a window and showed him my reservation number. And they gave me a ticket and I walked over to the line.  The lion got on the bus, they give you a little tablethey're for the tour, and while you walk through the house and the grounds, you can listen to the tour. What impressed me about the place? Is that it's the house the actual house is not that large? I mean, it's certainly bigger than my house. But not really a lot bigger than.  The American Legion post 76 house. Yet add-on in the basement for the jungle room. And he added a careported. Yeah, another house in the back would just be. The servant's quarters was the office, and he added a wreck ball court not too long before he died.  The Thing that strikes me sad that you know. Elvis Only lived to be forty two And his daughter , maybe 50.
In fact, everyone in the family had a short life except his grandmother, who lived to be 83.
After the tour, I hopped on the bus rode back over to the entertainment center handed in my iPad. They handed me the picture they took of me while I'm gonna go on the bus and laid it down somewhere then I walked out. I walked back to the car. Proceeded to drive West.  Back across the Mississipp.

I spent the rest of the day driving to Little Rock.
 I found a charging station down by the river where I parked charged the car and shopped at goodwill. got some more shirts and flip-flops and then I had dinner at a Mexican restaurant. I drove it to the extended stay.  Hotel to park the car and go to sleep. And I found that they had outlets on the exterior walls so I plugged the car in to charge.

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