The deer attack and Memphis repairs

I forgot to tell you all about our run in with a deer in Camdenton. Joe was driving home about 9:30 at night when a deer came running across the road and ran into the side of our car. The deer hit the front fender just in front of the driver's door, broke that mirror and then hit the rear door. The deer was nowhere in sight when Joe stopped to call police and make a report. Joe was fine but our car was not so fine. We will get it fixed when we get to Florida.

We left Camdenton MO on Sunday morning and headed toward Memphis, our plan was to get a little past Memphis the first day and then go to rest of the way to Knoxville Monday and arrive in Maggie Valley on Tuesday around noon. However, as you all know, our plans do not always go as intended.

We stopped about 50 miles before we got to Memphis to eat dinner at Cracker Barrel and then we came out we checked the car and tow bar like we always do. The entire back end of the coach, our car and the tow bar was covered with oil. We called Cummins Engine in Memphis and got on the schedule for 8 in the morning, they told us they have electric hookups in the parking lot so we drove over there for the night. The next morning they discovered that the Springfield Cummins had not installed the oil pan correctly. Memphis is ordering the parts, doing the work and charging everything to the Cummins in Springfield, so it will be a few hours at least.

Since we had all day to wait, we went and found a car wash first thing. Then we decided since we had so much time to wait for the coach, we would go visit Graceland. Wow, what a great place, we both had a blast there. What a great job they have done to display it all like it was when Elvis lived there, you almost expect him to walk out and talk to you.

We had a great time here, we had a tour of the house, and his airplanes, went to Elvis's car museum and a museum all about his military tour of duty. We even had a great lunch at a little BBQ place near Graceland. When we got back to the repair place they were still working on the coach but by 7:30 that night they were done, and we were on the road again. We drove about 4 hours and stopped near Nashville at a Flying J for the night.