We followed Elvis from Tupelo to Graceland. It wasn't far but the distance was great.

TUPELO, Mississippi ‒ The distance from here to Memphis, Tennessee, is about 115 miles ‒ an easily traveled span of wooded hills and sunbaked asphalt, churches and truck stops, strip malls and at least one strip club. But the space between the two-room shotgun house in Tupelo where Elvis Presley was born on Jan. 8, 1935, and the 23-room mansion in Memphis where the life of the King of Rock ‘n Roll ended on Aug 16, 1977, is vast ‒ epic, historic, immeasurable. Elvis’