{"id":385,"date":"2010-09-16T08:02:26","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T15:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/?p=385"},"modified":"2010-09-16T08:02:26","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T15:02:26","slug":"day-46-bye-dan-teri-hello-graceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minniebiz.com\/gmcmotorhome\/2010\/09\/16\/day-46-bye-dan-teri-hello-graceland\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 46 – Bye Dan & Teri, hello Graceland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sept 15th<\/p>\n

We left Dan and Teri’s at about 9:00 or so and headed south on some country roads, heading for I-55 to Memphis and Graceland.\u00a0\u00a0 We have been wishing that we had the Paul Simon CD with “Graceland” on it to play on the trip but we didn’t bring it.\u00a0 We tried singing it ourselves but it lacks something.<\/p>\n

The coach was still suffering a little from the fuel issue which started yesterday.\u00a0 It didn’t do anything bad until maybe and hour on the road and then it started acting – a couple of seconds at a time once in a while – like it was starving for fuel.\u00a0 I tried switching to the second fuel tank to see if the problem was unique to the primary tank and maybe the notorious “sock” filter inside the fuel tanks but the second tank did the same thing.<\/p>\n

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Graceland campground<\/p><\/div>\n

We got to Memphis and the camp ground at Graceland in about 3 hours and called Jim K at Applied GMC to see what he might suggest.\u00a0 He thinks I should change the fuel filter in the carburetor because some of the junk that clogged the big filter may have gotten through and clogged the little one.\u00a0 I will get one tomorrow at the Advanced Auto Parts store that is almost right next to the Graceland entrance.\u00a0 I may go ahead and buy that medium duty fan clutch that Ray E. suggested on the GMCnet<\/a> while I am there.\u00a0 The fan clutch was much more reasonable today – the temperatures were 90 to 95 degrees and the noise seems to be more acceptable when you need it.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We toured Graceland today – took about 2 1\/2 hours – and will do Sun Records, Beale Street and the Civil Rights Museum tomorrow.\u00a0 The Graceland hotel (“Heartbreak Hotel”) and the campground, both at the end of “Lonely Street”, provide shuttles.<\/p>\n

I have to admit that I have been a fan of Elvis since about 1958 when my then girl friend played his records for me.\u00a0 After getting over the shock of the “Hound Dog” lyrics I learned to really enjoy his music and even saw him perform live once.<\/p>\n

Here is a slide show of the other photos from Graceland.\n\n

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