I was totally blown away by Graceland.  What surprised me most was the number of people there waiting to tour on a Wednesday afternoon.  There had to be over a thousand people on-site waiting to tour the mansion, car museum, planes, and gift shops.  We decided we only had time to tour the house, so we did that.  The house is very modest in size compared to the hundreds of millions he made as the World's #1 Rock Star.  For instance, his kitchen was the same as any kitchen you'd see in the typical middle-class house.  Linoleum counter tops, carpet on the floor, standard refrigerator you'd get at Sear's back then.  Nothing even close to the opulence you regularly see rock stars, movie stars, and athletes buying these days.  His decorating was a bit on the crazy side, but the rooms would have been cool to hang out in.  Most were set up to be more like man caves where he and his band could go to get away from the world and feel comfortable.

The most impressive thing I saw as Graceland was all the gold records, awards, posters of all his movies, outfits he wore throughout his entire career, letters from fans, copies of canceled checks of donations he had made, video footage from the first TV shows he was on, and much more.  I couldn't believe how much this one man had accomplished and wondered who collected all this stuff.  I couldn't even guess how valuable it was.  It was priceless. And you wouldn't believe how many security cameras were on site.  I don't think they have half that security at Fort Knox.

As I walked around Graceland, I kept thinking of a famous Gandhi quote:

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi

 I don't think that applied to Elvis.  Whatever he did seemed to be very significant to a lot of people.

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