Going South
After checking out the Lincoln Memorial and the sites to see in D.C., we will head west taking I-66 into Virginia for about 75 miles and then hop on to I-81 which will take us through Tennessee. In Tennessee we will stop at the Great Smokey Mountain National Park which encompasses much of the Blue Ridge Mountains (part of the Appalachian Mountain Range). We will then take I-41 through Knoxville and Nashville for another 400 miles but we will make sure to stop off to see the skiing Pink Elephant in Cookerville.
At Grace Land, we will take a tour of his home, grounds (including his automobiles and planes) and the Elvis museum which houses a lot of Elvis memorabilia. We will also pay our respects at the grave of Elvis and his family.
Austin, TexasAfter Little Rock, we will head on I-30 South and then I-35 West for about 650 miles through Dallas until we hit Austin, Texas where we will visit the Governor's mansion and also the vist the oldest swimming pool in Texas, the Deep Eddy swimming pool. The pool was built during the Great Depression by the Works Progress Administrations
New MexicoWe will take I-10 for about 250 miles but then head off the beaten path for another 250 miles into the heart of New Mexico desert in order to visit Roswell. Roswell is home to Area 51 and all the hullabaloo about alien landings back in 1947. We will visit the flying saucer Mc Donalds as well as the UFO museum.
We will head west for another four hours, travelling about 300 miles to Las Vegas. Before Vegas, we must cross over the Colorado River on the Hoover Dam which was built during the 1930s. There is enough concrete in the dam to pave a two lane highway from New York to San Francisco and the hydroelectric power plant supplies 7 states with power, while the lake provides over 8 million people with fresh water.
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Washington D.C.The Lincoln Memorial is an American national monument built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. across from the Washington Monument. The architect was Henry Bacon, the sculptor of the primary statue – Abraham Lincoln, 1920 – was Daniel Chester French, and the painter of the interior murals was Jules Guerin. Dedicated in 1922, it is one of several monuments built to honor an American president.
Memphis, TennesseSo after 14 hours of driving almost 900 miles we will arrive at our intended destination of Memphis Tennessee, home of Beale Street, a mecca for blues and jazz enthusiasts and very near to Grace Land, the home of Elvis Presley.
Little Rock, ArkansasWe will leave Memphis taking I-41 into Arkansas where we will travel 120 miles to Little Rock to visit the Billy Bass Adoption Center, home to the Billy Bass singing fish. Seriously. We will also visit the national historic site, Central High School, where the Little Rock Nine were the first students to attend the school after the Brown -v- Board of Education Supreme Court decision.
Then we will head north, for another 200 miles through the desert to the Navaho Nation to see the Four Corners monument, where we can sit in four states at the same time.
ArizonaWe will then continue west for about another 200 miles, mostly on Route 160 to see the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon is one of the seven natural wonders of the world and visitors can see nearly 2 billion years of geographic history. The Canyon has been carved out by the Colorado River and is over 200 miles long and 18 miles wide. Although President Teddy Roosevelt was able to to protect the area by making it an animal preserve, it was not made a National Park until 1919.
Vegas from space
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