Blogs from Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, North America - page 15

Here's the plan. We have never toured the northwest nor been to Yellowstone or Yosemite--those are all first tier destinations. We will also visit many other national parks, monuments, wilderness areas, and forests along the way. This trip will complete my tour of the United States including Hawaii and Alaska and Susan will add many new states as well. The general itinerary is listed below, however, the only thing we know for sure is that it will change. That's part of the fun. We plan to leave around August 10th and return around October 30th. So don't worry--the Halloween Party is still on! August: Depart Knoxvegas Nashville, required visit to the parents Illinois, stop overnight MN, visit Aunt Dorothy South Dakota, badlands, black hills, Mt Rushmore, Crazy Horse monument, etc. Montana, Little Bighorn, etc. Wyoming, Yellowstone ... read more

Blogger: DJ We just gassed up in Knoxville, TN, which is funny because we thought we had passed through knoxville about 15-20 minutes earlier. Though it's possible that Knoxville is just huge. Katie would like to point out that for all of the mix CDs that we've listened to, no one saw fi to include "On the Road again" and that she was disappointed. I pointed out that the song is about anticipation of being on the road again and escaping and that my friends that made the CD's would most likely not be trying to encourage such behavior. She then conceded that she's never actually listened to that song. Katie and I are trying to switch of on the driving more frequently so we don't hate our lives as much. I drove for the first ... read more

Hey, this is just a quick test! I graduate from College on sunday at 6 pm....and on Monday at 6:30 pm my plane is taking off and taking me to Scotland to begin my 36 day adventure. I'm intensely excited. I'll keep this as updated as I can! ::huggles::... read more

Catch a train from Nashville heading NNW or WNW and get off twelve hours later in Bruceton, TN. Try to get anywhere from there and presto, the title is fulfilled. We got off the train with no idea of our locale, typical perhaps and lovely, almost certain we'd gone the wrong way but not really giving a damn since-hell-yeah-we'd gone somewhere. How wrong we were. Trying to move towards Pittsburgh, PA and ending up in The Dying Town of Bruceton, TN is a lot like not travelling at all...except worse. It's another southern spot with two closed factories and a burgeoning retired population that hunts, breeds dogs, and talks about weather so eloquently that you'd wonder how modern poets can carry those noses so high... A ride later from roofers that wanted to come with us, ... read more

So my last night in Knoxville (for 3 months) was this past Friday. We went, of course, to the Old City for one last blow out. Brady drove Dennis and I down there and others trickled in throughout the night. We ended up on the 3rd floor of Sullivans and proceeded to drink way too many V-Ray shooties and various other alcoholic concoctions. I leave tomorrow for Argentina and arrive there on Tuesday morning. I'll update this when I arrive! Wow, I just uploaded all of the photos and realized I am a huge ham. I'll try not to be in ALL of the pictures next entry. Until Tuesday!!!... read more