good morning everybody starting my day off with breakfast hash browns and
scrambled eggs here you couldn't tell by my overnight time-lapse yes I am here in
Memphis Tennessee for the first time in four years
my first experience did not go so well so I hope to make it a lot more
interesting this time we shall see I'm gonna be unloading the bike later taking
the motorcycle around the city of Memphis and although I stayed here last
night this Bass Pro Shops allows it there are
some other places too overnight Park I may stay here two nights we shall see
but first of all I need to get some breakfast in mobility it's actually a
really good feeling being back in the state of Tennessee although it's a
little chilly it is sunshiny and nice and we'll just
layer up today as much as I need to a big shout out to my buddy Steve over
there and Pigeon Forge on the other side of Tennessee missed you buddy
I'll probably be back in 2019 I want to check out Dollywood and a few other
things over there in the Smoky Mountains hope you're well though buddy I'm over
here on the west side of Tennessee and in case you're wondering this giant
pyramid is the second largest pyramid building in the country behind the Luxor
in Vegas kind of weird though right in fact the building doesn't have a great
history it opened in 1991 as a Sports Arena but
was abandoned in 2003 and just kind of sat as an eyesore here in Memphis until
Bass Pro Shops purchased it in 2005 ten years later after working on it it
opened as a Bass Pro Shops a very unusual looking one and I really want to
see what the inside looks like so let's go check this place out and obviously
big thank you to Bass Pro Shops for allowing RVs to overnight in their
parking lot that is very convenient in the big cities
there she is know who that even says Memphis on it hmm
you can't see through any of the windows of the pyramid so you can't see the sky
or anything a little different usually Bass Pro Shops are very colorful with
natural light but still very detail-oriented I don't know what the
point of this cave was
there's the see-through elevator that runs through the middle of the pyramid
you can see somebody coming down right now all the way to the top
so it's really open in here it has that swampy feel maybe because we're a little
farther down south big old brown bear there an aquarium right in the store
definitely the coolest Bass Pro Shop ever a little swampy area here I mean
they really made it look authentic it's kind of cool
Oh Santa's Wonderland looks like Santa's on break right now though okay they do
have Gators yeah Gators great in the store
see if I can find the entrance to the elevator the thing about Gators is
always weird because if you're coming down south from North there's not a
specific line where all of a sudden Gators are possible in freshwater you
really don't know there could be some overlap there could
you know it's tough to tell exactly where the line is well let's see about
the elevator so it's 10 bucks to ride to the top we're gonna go to the top of the
pyramid Christmas music they've got a restaurant and a bar up here we are out
on the observation deck not too many people get this specific view of Memphis
on top of the pyramid and honestly I didn't even know there was an
observatory deck available in this thing there we go
I sure got some good views there's the Mississippi River down there oh man oh
you know what I recognize that rig right there there's
my RV well let's go get a magnet and then let's get the motorcycle ready to
go ride around getting close to that time to move all of the Aventa magnets
over to the main board but I want this to continually to be a great River Road
collection so put our rubber Bass Pro Shops Memphis Tennessee magnet right
there and go outside unload the bike
alright alright so this then becomes the first real city moto vlog that I have
done and yes I have named the bike guys the Honda Grom officially has a name
Falkor we are calling her Falkor so let's take Falkor out to the city and
have some fun
feels so good to be back on two wheels again oh man I love it
he did 120 miles gallon on this hog that's right all right we're gonna stop
and check out this school off to our left here
oh so easy to park the bike you really can't make a stop in Memphis Tennessee
and not at least talk a little bit about Elvis Presley the king of rock and roll
and this school is still open which is kind of interesting yeah this is Humes
high school historically Elvis Presley graduated from this High School in 1953
although now it has been converted into a working middle school and I guess they
probably rebuilt the high school the old king of rock and roll now I'm gonna have
to listen some Elvis Christmas music tonight all right let's get back on the
road now one other thing about Elvis that well kind of sucks Graceland Elvis
is home there is a while I can buy tickets
I think the cheapest ones are $40 and they go up but absolutely no videography
or audio of any kind allowed at Graceland and so although I would love
it there's no way that I can show it to you so I'm just not gonna go and again
you can't even get a picture of the outside of it without paying so I'm
gonna skip it I wish they would allow me to get like a little preview of it to
share with my viewers but nope not gonna happen
aha now we need to pull over and park right here a little motorcycle spot so
yeah since Graceland is all locked up and not
very welcoming to cameras or YouTube let's look at something a little
different you might not know this one but the Lauderdale apartments this was
Elvis and his parents first apartment when they first came to Memphis I don't
know how many years they actually lived here but I'm told that the apartment is
actually for rent on a nightly basis you can actually and if they got like 1950s
furniture and stuff inside the apartment and so you can stay where he lived for a
couple years if you wanted to but yeah this is where he he started his Memphis
career all right I am feeling a little hungry guys I want to find some good
Memphis food I also want to do Beale Street later tonight like when it's dark
I need some lunch
yes oh I definitely found a good corner for food here on the corner of 2nd and
Union there are lots of smells lots of restaurants I have lots to choose from
the first look at the ground it's the duck Hall of Fame John Judas
Henry turn Lee Geary bells and his brother Jack bells it just goes and goes
and goes the duck Hall of Fame in Memphis and it has to have something to
do with the Peabody Hotel because it even got ducks on their carpet here
pianos playing itself it's pretty cool these Ducks are absolutely spoiled
they're inside the hotel and it smells like pine Christmas trees that's a
monster tree two stories high are you guys the guard dogs okay
carry on I like your decorations very cool little stop I'm hungry I'm not
gonna eat here I look at the prices and like know okay don't feel like pizza
right now my choices I've narrowed it down to two our Huey's which has
Christmas decorations or the cooky Canuck and I'm actually gonna skip the
colorful bar atmosphere and tryke cooky Canuck instead it sounds good looks good
also this sign out front cooky Canuck home of the world-famous
four pound Cucamonga burger as seen on TV huh okay I'll bite literally all the
animals on gravy
cheese curds fries burger
that was scrumptious I'm full some people is that they don't like to see me
eat even take a bite on video am I taking a buddy
that's all I'm gonna do for the daytime as far as exploring although I do want
to do Beale Street tonight what I'm actually gonna do is ride about eight
miles out of downtown because I have an Amazon locker pick up some things I
needed to get so I'll show you how that works there's one here in actually
there's two in Memphis and I got my pickup codes so I'll go do that then
I'll go check on on Jackson once the Sun Goes Down we'll go try Beale Street
tonight
whoo I'm back oh right that was I was Laird I think it was the genes that the
cold was cutting through the most and if you're wondering how I got all that
stuff from my Amazon lockers in my backpack I had to consolidate and I took
every inch of that backpack to get back but it's a good 9 miles away so I didn't
want to make two trips the house cold by that time I got my Grom cover so Falkor
has his cover it arrived I'm gonna test that later and possibly most importantly
my new potential vlogging lens this is a Rokinon 12 millimeter fixed lens 2.0 so
very very good for low-light but it is an all manual focus lens I don't know
how that's gonna work for vlogging but I'm not gonna use it all the time it's
just for like the low light stuff so we'll get a really good test I will
either ride the bike or I will walk to Beale Street once the Sun Goes Down
that's the plan super and some other gifts and stuff you
know oh and while we're waiting for the Sun to set I did get a couple magnets
from the Peabody Motel this one's shaped like an iPhone and it's got the duck in
it is that greater what I love it so put that guy right there for now
alright and because I was expecting everything to be closed tonight I got my
eldest jailhouse rock Memphis magnet oh yeah that's a big one but it's still
cool
it's actually kind of funny guys I like I'm cracking up there's nobody on Beale
Street it's hilarious it's teracle you guys have a great weekend Jackson I will
see you back on the great river road on Monday morning bye guys
you