This was our first time being in Memphis and we really enjoyed ourselves. We spent 3 days here and they were busy days. I am sure there was more to see but we saw all that we had planned to see. Of course there is Graceland Elvis home; Sun Studios were he recorded his first song; Mud Island; and downtown Memphis.

Since we had planned to stay right across the street from Graceland at the KOA campgrounds this made things real easy for us. Although we did miss the entrance to the campgrounds the first time. It sits behind the Heartbreak Hotel which is back from the road a ways.

Our first site seeing was to take a ride on the Memphis Queen paddle boat on the mighty Mississippi River. This was a lot of fun and for $5.00 we got a picture of us when we were boarding. 

The next day we started out visiting Graceland first thing in the morning to avoid the heat. Sure glad we missed the heat it was only 85 degrees when we started out. The tour of Graceland and seeing all of the awards etc that Elvis had there was great. By the way you cannot take flash pictures or video there.

After Graceland we went back to the ticket area and boarded a free shuttle bus to Sun Studios. This is were Elvis first recorded a song. It is also the place that many other stars such as Jerry E. Lewis recorded.

Then we boarded the shuttle bus to go back to the Graceland reception area. We could of gotten off the Shuttle at Elvis Presley's Downtown which is a club but we decided we did not want to do that. If we had we could of just toured the downtown area including Mud Island without having to drive there.

On the third day we visited the Memphis Fire House Museum which was very nice and we would encourage any one being in Memphis to go there. Then we went on the Mud Island which is accessed via a tram (if you saw this is the tram that was in the movie). The fee to take the tram included the cost of seeing the Memphis Belle bomber plane; the scale model of the Mississippi River and a fantastic museum.

Take a look of some of the pictures we took at the various locations: