Tennessee

I thought I'd seen everything I wanted to see in Tennessee when I started out for Mississippi on October 4th, but soon realized there was more to see.  My first stop was at Loretta Lynn's Ranch in Hurricane Mills, TN.  We were not allowed to take pictures in her house or inside the museum, so the only picture I got was the outside of her former home

Loretta Lynn's former home

Loretta Lynn is banking it, she lives on a huge piece of land that has her home, her mansion, her museum, an RV park, a concert area, and even a racetrack.  She still gives concerts threes times a year (this year she gave four), I didn't stay for the concert, but did do the tour of her home and museum.  The house was amazing and colorful, but you couldn't go upstairs for "security reasons" and apparently it is haunted (no haunting happened while I was there).

Graceland

Elvis took a "selfie" with a Polaroid here

Since I was in Tennessee and only a couple hours from Memphis I decided to detour to see Graceland again because it's the shit!  This time around they have an iPad giving the tour not just a tape recording.  The iPad is good and bad; you get extra pictures and video of Elvis Presley, but people don't know how to walk and listen or stand off to the side to watch the videos, so they end up standing in the middle of a hallway and holding up the line, but still worth the hassle.

Elvis' Parents Room

Records Room

Graceland is the best place to go for over the top decorating.  I'm not going to lie I would fabric my ceiling in a heartbeat, I would have a records room with bright yellow paint, and I would for sure have velvet eggplant curtains (I'd die if I had those curtains), I love all the rooms in the house.  When Elvis Presley lived here he wouldn't let people up to the second floor, so out of respect for him they still don't let anyone upstairs.

Pool Room

Meditation Garden

I also made my way to Lynchburg to the Jack Daniels Distillery, the property is in a beautiful area and one of the nicest distilleries I visited on my trip.  The thing I don't understand about some of the companies I've visited is that some of the bottles they make they only sell in their distilleries, overseas, or at duty free; like the Jack Daniels Sinatra Select (Frank Sinatra bottle) they only sell at duty free and the distillery.  I wanted to buy a bottle but they were asking $165 and that's not happening.

Jack Daniels