Hey, I'm Shawna Compton Game.

This is Millennium Money, and today we're talking Memphis, more than Elvis, and barbecue.

Millennial Money with Shawna Compton Game. It will expand your brain.

Hey there, welcome to another edition of Travel Tuesday on a Tuesday here.

It is Tuesday.

And we're traveling. This time we're traveling to Memphis.

We've gone to Memphis together before. I've been to Memphis a few times, a few different times.

But this trip I went by myself

on another press trip, hosted by our good friends at the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development.

They hosted several journalists and we got to go check out Memphis. And there's so much,

so many things that are growing in Memphis. The first time I ever went to Memphis, took a road

trip by myself, a cross country, went to a bunch of different cities and states, and cities I've

never been to before. And one of my biggest goals was to get to Memphis and to get to Graceland.

And the reason why we're actually doing Memphis this week. I traveled to Memphis a couple months ago,

but we're doing it this week because it's actually Elvis's 40th anniversary, the anniversary

of his death in 1977. So it's a big to do in Memphis this year. The first time I went there,

I drove there and I said, oh, well, I'll just find Grace. It was a long day of driving and I'll just find Graceland, find a cheap motel, and we'll all be good and stuff like that.

And I totally got lost.

I'm driving down this alley.

I'm listening to a blues station and I see a three-legged dog literally run in front of me and then

my cell phone rings at the time and it scared the crap out of it because I didn't know where I was

and that was I think the more seedier part of Memphis. So basically you were getting distracted

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