{"id":1280,"date":"2016-10-23T13:24:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T02:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slingadventures.com\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2018-05-09T10:32:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T00:32:45","slug":"memphis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slingadventures.com\/destinations\/usa\/memphis","title":{"rendered":"Memphis, Tennesse"},"content":{"rendered":"After a night in what can only be described as a truckstop, Texacarna, Arkansas was an experience. Between our stay at a Motel 6, our dinner at Applebees and breakfast at Denny's we felt neither safe nor healthy but at least culturally immersed in the USA roadtrip way of life.\r\n\r\nFor the uninitiated, Arkansas is pronounced 'Ahh-Ken-Saw' which took several miles of highway driving to resolve among our party of five headed east from Dallas to Memphis. Arkansas is best said with a southern drawl which we we're each attempting with mixed results.\r\n\r\nIt is not until you are traversing the US of A by car you get a full appreciation for the investment in their roadways and supporting infrastructure. The spiralling multi-level strips of suspended bitumen as you intersect with another freeway, the slip-roads that run parallel for miles allowing entry and exit points for locals. Not to mention the towns that have sprung up like Texacarna that seem to exist simply to support life on the road.\r\n
Read a full detailed account of Graceland<\/a><\/strong><\/blockquote>\r\nThe walk down Elvis' memory Lane gave us some interest into his beginnings so we stopped in to Sun Studios where Elvis was first signed. As a very modest studio Sun Studios has signed a long list of household names, Johnny Cash among them. The original owner encouraged open recording of all types of music. You might say it was an originally incubator of ideas around music. Hence the birthplace of rock and roll! The tour was like the building, modest and interesting.\r\n\r\nIt's fair to say our 2 night stay in Memphis was varied, action packed, historic and educational. Definitely worth the visit!","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a night in what can only be described as a truckstop, Texacarna, Arkansas was an experience. Between our stay at a Motel 6, our dinner at Applebees and breakfast at Denny’s we felt neither safe nor healthy but at least culturally immersed in the USA roadtrip way of life. For the uninitiated, Arkansas is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[462,163],"tags":[383,336,412,381,438],"yoast_head":"\n
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