1st nite

Well, we didn't make it to Memphis (surprise, surprise) but we got as far as Tupelo, Mississippi, where Elvis Presley was born. There's an Elvis museum here, which we probably won't see. We'll get to Graceland tomorrow, but we won't have a lot of time to see it. The good news is that the van gets over 16 miles per gallon on the highway, better than the 12 MPG we calculated. The bad news is that the fan for the AC, vent, etc. is so noisy that we hate to use it, but we must. We're in a different time zone now, but haven't set our watches -- going through 23 hours just to go back 1 hour is a chore, and if we do it each time, that's 3 times before we get to the west coast. We'd rather wait until then and set them forward 21 hours.