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2006 Miksanek Guy Trip: Memphis

2006 Memphis

 

 

 

With a few days to kill, the guys took a trip down to Memphis ...

here's a photo journal of our road trip

 

 On a cold and grey Chicago morning...The Rochester Posse meets the "Memphis Mafia"

 

On the Road

Who is that guy holding our camera and why is he running away with it?

Route 66. Very cool.

Some day, we'll have to drive it all the way from Chicago to LA, and... go through Saint Looey; Joplin, Missouri, and Oklahoma City ('mighty pretty); 'see Amarillo, Gallup, New Mexico, Flagstaff, Arizona. Don't forget Winona, Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino.

You can take Route-63 from Rochester all the way to Memphis.

So what?

Big Deal!

 

 Get your glee on Route 63? It just doesn't sound as good.

 

In one day, we managed to drive in six states.

I have no idea where we took this picture.

"On the road again, I just can't wait to get on the road again!"

Dig these crazy 1950s-style headphones!

 

"Pumpin' gas is a gas, gas gas!"

Gassin' up somewhere.

"I ain't ridin' in no plane, Hannibal!"

Hannibal, Missouri, I suppose.

  

 

 

 

 

Misc. Memphis

Rudy: "Can I sit up here on the drive back to Rochester?" Luke: "Yea, let him!"

An old-fashioned drive in (with new-fashioned prices)!

The Peabody Hotel duck walk.

We had to go to say we were there.

 Woo-hoo, look, ducks!

 

"Mirror? What's a mirror?"

Bad hair day in Memphis.

 

 

Some guitars at the Gibson Guitar factory.

 Rudy: "Huh? No free samples? This trip was totally misrepresented!"

 

"I built it one piece at a time, and it didn't cost me a dime!"

Guitars under construction.

 

 

 

 

 

And of Course ... Graceland

 The sign in Elvis' auto museum. There was another sign: No Photography! I wanted to take a picture of that one but they confiscated my camera.

 

Luke: "Hey, I have and idea, let's make an Elvis movie!"

Luke in the Jungle Room

What, no plasma screen? I am disappointed.

The TV Room.

 

Luke: "How much will you give me to jump in that fountain?"

The fountain near Elvis' pool

was under repair.

The sign said

they were "TCBing"

 

Why is Elvis' grave so much wider than everone elses?

   Rudy yawning in the Meditation Garden
 
On the right is the one for "In the Ghetto!"
Elvis's trophy building

 

 

 

 

 

 

De planes, de planes!

 

 Rudy: "There I am in the background standing next to Elvis' plane, the 'Ave Maria!' "

 

 

 

"Elvis, that's not the remote, that's a .357!"

I think this is from when he heard they cancelled Gunsmoke!

"Hmmm ... how can you put down "8" for your ones? I think Elvis really played to win!.

If you look close, you can see where Elvis erased a "0" he put down for Yahtzee and later claimed one. Evidence that Elvis was a cheater!

The museum also had the go-carts used by his bodyguards, but Elvis' was the only one with an engine. Another example that Elvis played to win!

Elvis' Go-Cart

 

 

A national landmark

In front of Graceland

Defacing a national landmark

How do you spell "ahardheadedwomanbeenathorninthesideofman"         "Gun 'n Roses Rules" What? What's wrong with that?

 

 

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