Thursday, June 1, 1978

Southern Trip: Summer 1978

My mom, dad, and I went on our first long road trip down south when I was almost 4 yrs old. We went to Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee (Gatlinburg, Nashville, Memphis), Georgia (Plains), Missouri (St. Louis), and Asheville, North Carolina.


There are only a couple of things I remember from the trip. I remember we did visit Elvis’s house in Memphis and wearing this t-shirt I got in Plains, GA, that said “I am a little peanut from Plains, GA”. I wore that shirt many times over that summer.


My mom remembers me seeing a child asking for orange pop, so that was my new thing to ask for on the road trip.    It would drive my mom crazy constantly asking for it.