The birthplace of Rock and Roll

(K) Hi-de-ho, neighborinos. We are coming to you live from Oklahoma City, OK (or OKC) and are ready to crash after another long day. Here's the highlight reel:
-We made the excellent decision to spend a little extra time in Memphis and visited Sun Studios, the place where Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis etc. got their recording careers started. Our tourguide Slim was really cool and the tour had a great soundtrack. Definitely worth the extra time + $10. Dad, I got you a cool Sun Studio magnet, no worries.
-The drive through Arkansas was pretty boring. Very flat. And for some reason there were a lot of cars around as we drove through Little Rock, which was not good for me since I can't really drive.
-OKC is also, admittedly, pretty boring. We had a GREAT steak dinner (see pics). I had the T-bone, which is apparently George W. Bush's favorite steak-- Clearly, I couldn't pass that up, since we all know how much I value our President's good taste and opinion on everything. And even though that statement is dripping with sarcasm, the steak was pretty freakin' good. Pretty soon I will fit right in here in the south, if I keep eating like this. Then we headed over to the going-out district, which was amazingly empty. Heard a little live music at a Biker Blues bar and now we're going to enjoy our 5,000,000 calorie piece of coconut creame pie and rest up for another day of driving. Tomorrow, we start on Route 66 to Sante Fe!

Also-- Dad, check out the pic of the UPS buffalo. Awesome, right?

(R) Almost didn't blog...really tired but got a second wind. Had another great day! Woke up in Memphis, TN (pretty rad), after touring Graceland, eating BBQ, and hanging out on Beale St. (which included listening to some really good blues band and sipping on some nice, cold, 'big ass beers' {I just wanted to say 'big ass beers' one more time.}) After grabbing a much needed, very tasty coffee in an up and coming neighborhood just past Beale St. (really close to the Mississippi River), we went to Bank of America to deposit some cash. I, correction, Kristin, was carrying around a wad (and I mean a WAD) of cash. I had to pay the movers in cash and ended up just paying half...also had $$ from the tag sale and selling other funiture. It was folded over and had a rubber band around it AND was put in a plastic zip lock sandwhich bag. Kristin (and I guess I) didn't feel comfortable carrying that thing around. The teller was super nice, like most people around here...while she counted my life savings we chatted about everything, trip, job, etc...turns out she LOVES San Diego, who doesn't? As (K) mentioned we ended up going on the Sun Studio tour. For me the highlight of the trip so far. Really enjoyed the tour. It consisted of two rooms (1) the 'museum' and (2) the actual studio. Pretty amazing, I really felt the history in the studio...Elvis, Johny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis just jamming. Drove through Arkansas and ended up in OK City just in time for a steak (we're lucky, we arrived at 9 and everything closes at 9 pm but this steak place was open 'til ten). The steak was de-li-cious (3 words)!! I had the blue ribbon prime (only 2% of beef qualifies as "prime) 14 oz ribeye. DAMN it was tasty...grilled with a little salt and pepper. That steak in NYC would be $60 just for the steak alone. There was another ribeye that was 28 oz. Are you kidding me, who needs to eat that much steak? Supposedly, someone had consumed ALL of it just hours before we arrived. It looked really cool inside, like a real steak house (see pics)...they played coutry music and some dude with his gf was wearing a cowboy hat. Heidi was our server and she was studying to be a nurse...just took her first anatomy exam on identifying all the muscles. She has her own cadaver and is "over the smell of formaldehyde," which I later found out means she hates it. The place is on a corner of a 4 way intersection...on the other corner was a huge western wear wherehouse clothes shop, another corner had the national rodeo commission, and the last corner had a parking lot with 8 or 9 huge pick-up trucks and 2 cars all in a row. The nightlife was pretty tame in a new kinda downtown restaurant/club/sports arena area...saw a band of older gentlemen (kind of a cross between hicks and hippies) at a biker bar....they played 'Secret Asian Man." I could have sworn that they were singing directly to me.

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