He actually left it on August 16th 1977 but fortunately his legacy lives on, as does his Memphis home, Graceland, which is where we have been visiting today.

I’m not a massive Elvis fan, well, not compared with most Elvis Presley fans out there, but i do enjoy his music and respect what he achieved and how he shaped modern music, so it was a tick on the bucket list today as we finally got to visit Graceland. This was originally booked for the 21st June 2020, My son, Oscars 18th Birthday. He was looking forward to it but we thought about you whilst walking around … remember, studying is important 😀

We had the 9:15am tour booked so we walked down Elvis Presley Boulevard for a few minutes and soon find ourselves out the gates to Graceland. From there its a cross across the road to the Disneylandesque entrance where after a brief 5 minute film we hopped onto a tour bus which drove us back across the road, up the drive and dropped us at Elvis’ front door.

I’m not going to go into loads of details about Graceland, theres plenty of information online if you want the history etc. I’ll let the pictures do the talking. The one thing i will say though is …
1 – It’s nowhere near as big as i expected
2 – It was last decorated in the mid 70s … and it shows
3 – Elvis must have been best mates with Laurence Llewellyn Bowen 😀

Downstairs at Graceland

The hall, front room, the err, lounge, the kitchen and the billiard room

The TV Room

This was a sight to behold. Yellow and mirror tiled ceiling and a completely mirrored stairway down to it – drugs must have been involved lol

The Outhouses, Garden, Racquetball court and some of Elvis’s belongings

The Memorial Garden

At the back of the pool is the memorial garden where Elvis is buried alongside his parents and a memorial to his still born twin brother. The most recent grave here is that of Lisa Marie.

The Elvis Museum

After we had finished at Graceland it was back into a tour bus and over to the exhibition centre to see the museums of his clothes (wow), his cars ( double wow) and the story of his life.

Elvis Autos

A wardrobe fit for the King

Elvis Air

To be the King of Rock n Roll i suppose you must have a couple of planes

So, that sums up, in pictures anyway, our trip to Graceland, Home of the king.
Overall i was a little disappointed in a not disappointed kind of way. I was expecting to be spiritually moved by the visit and i wasn’t. Don’t get me wrong, i loved every moment of it and seeing how such an icon lived was fantastic. Maybe if i was an Elvis super fan i’d of been bawling my eyes out but with the house being small ( certainly in relation to what you would expect) and a little cramped when it’s full of Elvis loving tourists it all felt a little rushed.

Would i go again? Hell yeah!!
Would i advise others to visit ? You can’t go to Memphis and miss such a legendary place even if you aren’t the worlds biggest fan.

I’m glad we went though. Ill do another blog for the afternoon which was spent travelling between Memphis and Clarksdale, Mississippi.