Richard & Sylvia's RV Adventures

Day 15 - Friday, March 16, 2007

Birmingham, AL

We woke early in the parking lot of Wal-Mart and began preparations to leave.  We had parked in a very open section of the parking lot; however, that morning a tour bus pulled in as we were preparing to leave and immediately a bunch of cars began to come out of nowhere and parked all around to get on board the bus.  The problem was that they were parking in the rows just in front of the coach and they were quickly beginning to box me in such that if I had wait a few more minutes I would not have been able to get out.  I quickly completed preparations and got out of there! Guess you get what you pay for! We found a tire shop across the street where I took my now flat spare tire in for examination and repair.  The guys in the shop were very friendly and most helpful; they found that I had a nail in the tire and they actually fixed it and did not charge me a penny for the repair!! 

We also found an RV repair shop about 20 miles out of our way to have my faulty stabilizer alarm checked out.  The shop found the  problem was that the hydraulic fluid was low and this was what the alarm was  trying to tell me.  Once the fluid was topped off it fixed the problem.  However, the mechanic had a heck of a time getting getting the fluid in there – so even if I figured it out I would have had to take it to a shop.  We were off on our final leg  towards Oklahoma City.

  This leg took us through Tupelo, MS and then on to Memphis, TN.  We had to stop in Tupelo since this was the birthplace of Elvis Presley.  We got fuel, unhooked our Honda CRV and set off to find Elvis birthplace.  Tupelo is a very small place and so we had no problem finding it.  It was hard to believe that his birth house was actually smaller than our motor home!

There was a museum and chapel at the site along with a few bronze statues and one of his automobiles.

 According to the information provided Elvis left the house when he was 13 years of age, after his Dad packed everything they owned into a 39 Plymouth heading for Memphis.  After a short visit, we returned to the RV, hooked up the CRV and were back on the road again.  This leg took us to Memphis, TN

 where we spent the night at the Memphis Naval Support Facility.

posted by Richard @ 11:15 PM