29 Graceland

Chapter 29 GRACELAND Mrs. McDonald pulled the road atlas out of the glove compartment and spread it across the dashboard. She was thrilled to see that Tupelo, Mississippi, was only about a hundred miles from Memphis. Unless they hit some unexpected traffic along the way, they would be in Tennessee in less than two hours. Graceland was just a few miles past the state line. She got on her cell phone and found out that there was an RV campground right across the street from Graceland. Perfect! While he drove, Dr. McDonald's face showed a sense of calm and glassy-eyed peacefulness that hadn't been there for a long time. He was humming the old Paul Simon

第二十九章格雷斯兰麦克唐纳太太从汽车杂物箱里拿出一张地图集，摊在仪表盘上。 她很高兴地看到，密西西比州的图珀洛离孟菲斯只有大约100英里。 除非他们在路上遇到意外的交通堵塞，否则他们将在不到两个小时的时间内到达田纳西州。 雅园离州界只有几英里。 她打开手机发现雅园街对面有个房车露营地。 完美!当他开车的时候。 麦克唐纳的脸上露出了一种平静的表情，目光呆滞，这种平静已经很久没有出现了。 他哼着老保罗·西蒙的歌

song.. "Graceland, Graceland, in Memphis, Tennessee. I'm going to Graceland...." In his head, he had already started planning out his Elvis biography. The first chapter would begin on the day Elvis and his twin brother, Jesse, were born in Tupelo. The chapter would end that very same day, when Jesse died during childbirth. In the back of the RV, meanwhile, the twins realized there was nothing they could do to avoid a trip to Graceland and an inevitable confrontation with Evil Elvis. They were nervously preparing to go to war. Coke carefully read the instructions on his fireworks so he would know how to light them, aim them, and shoot them. Pep was loosening up her throwing arm. She knew it might be up to her to take out Evil Elvis with the Frisbee grenade. She would only get one shot, so it would have to count. She felt like Luke Skywalker preparing for the dive into the Death

歌. .“雅园，雅园，在田纳西州孟菲斯。 我要去雅园...." 在他的脑海里，他已经开始计划他的埃尔维斯传记。 第一章将从埃尔维斯和他的双胞胎兄弟杰西在图珀洛出生的那一天开始。 就在同一天，这一章结束了，杰西死于难产。 与此同时，在房车的后面，这对双胞胎意识到，他们无法避免去雅园的旅行，也无法避免与邪恶的猫王发生冲突。 他们紧张地准备开战。 可口可乐仔细阅读烟花上的说明，这样他就知道如何点燃它们，瞄准它们，然后发射它们。 佩普正在放松她的投掷臂。 她知道也许要靠她用飞盘手榴弹干掉邪恶的猫王。 她只有一次机会，所以必须算数。 她觉得自己就像卢克·天行者准备潜入死神

Star. The twins had a few other "weapons" at their disposal, but it wasn't like they would be much help in a fight: One roll of duct tape. A can of Silly String. Two yo-yos. A jar of bubbles. A can of Spam they got at the Spam Museum in Minnesota. A can of alligator repellent. If worse came to worst, they could hit somebody with the POUPON U toilet seat their mother had bought them back at the Mustard Museum in Middleton, Wisconsin. It was pretty hard.

明星。这对双胞胎还有一些其他的“武器”可供他们使用，但在战斗中似乎没有多大帮助：一卷管道胶带。 一罐傻线。两个溜溜球。 一罐泡泡。他们在明尼苏达州的午餐肉博物馆买的一罐午餐肉。 一罐鳄鱼驱避剂。 如果情况变得更糟，他们可能会用妈妈在威斯康辛州米德尔顿的芥末博物馆给他们买的popon U马桶盖打别人。 这很难。

They were speeding along I-22, traveling west and north diagonally across the state of Mississippi. Dr. McDonald didn't look like he was going to stop for food, drink, or to stretch his legs. He was a man on a mission. The countryside was flying by at sixty miles per hour, and nobody was paying much attention to the scenery.

他们沿着I-22高速行驶，向西和向北沿对角线穿过密西西比州。 麦克唐纳医生看起来不像是要停下来吃东西，喝饮料，或者伸展一下腿。 他是一个有使命的人。 乡村以每小时六十英里的速度飞驰而过，没有人注意到风景。

Shortly after they drove through Holly Springs National Forest, they passed this.... When they crossed the state line and there was no exuberant outburst from the backseat, Mrs. McDonald turned around to see if anything was wrong. "No woo-hoo?" she asked. "No facts about Tennessee? It's the Volunteer State, you know." "I volunteer to go home," Coke said glumly. Minutes later, they reached the outskirts of Memphis. Dr. McDonald noticed the gas tank

他们开车穿过霍利斯普林斯国家森林后不久，就经过了这个.... 当他们越过州线时，后座上并没有出现激动的情绪爆发，麦克唐纳太太转过身来看看是否出了什么问题。 “没有喔喔吗？”她问。“没有关于田纳西的事实吗？” 你知道，这里是志愿者之州。” “我自愿回家，”科克闷闷不乐地说。 几分钟后，他们到达了孟菲斯郊区。 麦克唐纳医生注意到了油箱

was close to empty, so he pulled into a station to fill it. When he started up the engine again, the GPS indicated they were just a few miles from Graceland. He made a left onto East Shelby Drive and drove a short time before he came to a street marked ELVIS PRESLEY BLVD. "This is it, Ben," Mrs. McDonald said. "Make a right here." It wasn't a fancy neighborhood, as they had expected. There were no other mansions around, and few houses at all. Most of the buildings on the street were pawn shops, gas stations, fast-food restaurants, and motels. They knew they were getting close to Graceland when they passed the Elvis Presley Boulevard Shopping Center and a Days Inn motel with a sign out front that said… "Before Elvis there was nothing." —JOHN LENNON

车快空了，所以他把车开进车站去加油。 当他再次启动引擎时，GPS显示他们离雅园只有几英里。 他向左转进入东谢尔比大道，开了一会儿就来到了一条标有猫王大道的街道。 “就是这样，本，”麦克唐纳太太说。 “在这里右转。”这并不像他们预料的那样是个高档社区。 附近没有别的豪宅，房子也很少。 街上的建筑大多是当铺、加油站、快餐店和汽车旅馆。 当他们经过埃尔维斯·普雷斯利大道购物中心和一家戴斯酒店汽车旅馆时，他们知道自己离雅园越来越近了，汽车旅馆前面有一块牌子，上面写着：“在埃尔维斯之前，什么都没有。” -约翰列侬