Southern Hospitality – everything you heard is true.
You hear about it all the time, but until you experience it, you just can’t know. The people in the South are just awesome!
There’s Valerie at The Cupboard restaurant, Nikita at the front desk at La Quinta on Millbranch, Michelle at Marlowe’s Ribs and Restaurant on Elvis Presley Boulevard, the incredible and vast amount of staff at Graceland. Then there’s gorgeous and outrageously funny strippers from Crystal’s I met while having a cigarette outside BB King’s Blues Club on Beale Street, and all the people I have run into, been served by, randoms I have asked questions of….. they have all been incredibly sweet, well above and beyond the call of duty.
Having an Australian accent down here always makes for a spirited conversation. I have chatted to all sorts of people, including street people asking for money (of which there are many). They just LOVE the accent, it really makes people smile. Awesome!
I love the South…. I never want to leave.
I NEVER want to see, hear or read the phrase “I never want to leave” AGAIN!!!!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
Memphis is one of the best places in the US
When we were there – there was a house next door to Graceland – the back yard butted up against the pool side — literally could see the house from the kitchen window. AH … I would have moved there and stayed forever.
I love Memphis!
Charleston, SC is the same thing … down by the Battery and Rainbow Row — great people and lots of Southern Charm.
Nice article, thanks! Memphis still holds a special place in my heart, I spent a few years there and still remember visits to Graceland, Beale Street, and of course the blues clubs.