Long day today covering over 500 miles. Factoid…We drove through Benton AK home of the first Walmart. We arrived late at the Graceland RV Park in Memphis to find that the Heart Break Hotel has just been demolished – what a heart braking moment (couldn’t resist).
The Heart Break Hotel was just across the street from Graceland and was built in response to Elvis’s hit song and was not the inspiration for it. That made us feel a lot better.
View From My Window This Morning
We spent the weekend just hanging out, visited the Arboretum and Dallas Zoo so Charlotte (Melanie) could feed the giraffe, and we experienced an Escape Room – interesting.
Mariana is a volunteer at the Arboretum. It is quite beautiful and visited often by Dallas residents. It sits on a lake with a 7 miles bike and walking trail.
We next visited Deep Ellum. It is similar to Belmont Shore on steroids seemingly inhabited by millions of millennials. There we experienced our first Escape Room with a Shakespeare theme. We would have “escaped” if Mike and Doug where not so hell bent on “solving” a puzzle instead of using simple mathematics.
After that it was off the Pecan Lodge for BBQ takeout. According to Matt, it is the 2nd best BBQ in Texas. If you buy more than 5 lbs. of meat, you don’t have to wait in the line that went out the door! We bought more than the 5 lbs for our gang.
Somewhere in there was Saturday night at a place called the Meddlesome Moth. Known for its craft beers, but what we enjoyed were all the small plates that we shared including bone marrow, lamb on a stick, steak on a stick, potato, chips with blue cheese, moth balls (fried ricotta cheese) and a variety of salads. Sunday was brunch at the Mudhen and a walk around the Farmer’s Market.
Navigating in and out of Dallas everyday was more than challenging even after Doug realized that he had set ‘no tolls” into his GPS. I could never drive the freeways here. Even Doug says it takes 2 people, one to drive and one to navigate. 5 major interstates cross in Dallas along with all the on and off ramps for the city not to mention all the construction. Even Mariana excludes the freeways on her Google maps and only uses surface streets.