Nashville and Memphis, TN

12/10

Until now Asheville has been the farthest south that I'd ever travelled over land. I'd flown to Mexico a couple years ago and to Little Rock way back but never so far down in a car. It felt monumentous at age 28, to finally bust through the 35th parallel with some connection to the ground.

The house in Nashville that we stayed at was accessed via miles of commercial district which gave way to a ... residential? area? Mansion after mansion after mansion. it was weird. The home itself was far more modest but far more beautiful. (Designed and built in a traditional japanese style by the wonderful folks we stayed with.) I made this new friend, pretty tops on the continuum of cuteness.

And we happened to time our trip just right so that a quick spur into Nashville proper for the first time, not much of which did I actually see, coincided with an appearance by our friends Matt and Kim, of the band....matt and kim...

Yesss..

Unfortunately, their plane had been delayed in gainesville that day (some problem with the wing, apparently, which had, in all seriousness, to be re-duct-taped on,) so that they showed up in Nashville ten minutes before playing and were busy and exhausted after playing. Not a chance to say even Hello. ah well. . maybe I'd see them soon ... hm. But the show was fantastic! The Cool Kids played afterward. great hip hop.



12 / 11

There was no way we'd be able to live with ourselves after driving through Memphis, TN in the middle of the day with time to spare and NOT stopping to pay our respects.



Here's Christy checking out some real estate we were thinking about investing our futures in. For Sale. Cheap. Foreclosure.

We Bought It!

just kidding, it's Graceland.

The King! Why god?!

...zoom...

Oh. Yeah that's why.

I have to say, I walked away from the experience with a new-found appreciation for what Elvis accomplished. A thousand million hundred records sold, just about, and a million hundred thousand dollars earned for RCA. and lots of pretty golden records on the wall.

Daaaamn. And that's only like half of them.