Beale Street Rocks!

And you left that to go see the former home of a dead, fat, Las Vegas
lounge singer?

I remember driving up to the place with some friends, asking the guard
how much it was. He said "10 bucks", and we turned around. Guess I'm not
really a fan...

It's now up to $25 per person -- unless you want the "extended tour"
that includes a tour of Elvis' private aircraft. That tour is
something crazy, like $60 per person.

We drove past Graceland...on our way to dinner. No way would I pay
anything to see the inside of that place. We didn't even take a
picture.

Sun Records, on the other hand, was well worth the $10 per-person fee
for the tour. To stand on the exact spot where Jerry Lee Lewis,
Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and, yes, Elvis recorded their greatest
hits was a real thrill. (The place is on the National Historic
Register, perfectly preserved, and the tour guides are fantastic.)

And, if you want to know what aviation geeks we really are, we took a
couple of hours to drive over to Memphis International to watch the
"FedEx Air Show".

We saw more aircraft fly into Memphis in 10 minutes than Cedar Rapids
(Class C) gets in a 24-hour period.

To see what FedEx does in Memphis, see these videos:

http://tinyurl.com/3xcjou

and

http://tinyurl.com/2r6bjn

It's absolutely amazing.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"