Blogs from Nashville, Tennessee, United States, North America - page 8

The last posting in October said we were leaving on the 26th, but we had an issue with the paperwork for our dog, Maggie and cat, Bear. So, we were delayed by a week. Changes to airline tickets, reservation in Guayaquil and Cuenca. We took off from Nashville at 12 Noon on the 2nd of November layed over in Miami for a few hours and then arrived in Guayaquil about 10 PM. After collecting all our bags and our pets, we were greeted by the owner of Iguanazul, the hostel that we made reservations, to relax for a few days before heading up to Cuenca. We knew things would be crazy for a while, getting our new home set up, so decided to take a few days of relaxation. The better picture of the sunset on ... read more

The drive from Tupelo MS to the Nashville Country RV Park in Goodlettsville TN (a north Nashville suburb) on Wednesday, August 28, 2013 was just over 200 miles and gave me the opportunity to enjoy the final stretch of the Natchez Trace Parkway. This RV park is very nice for the Nashville visitor. The sites are spacious and level, all have a concrete pad with a picnic table and many offer partial shade. A shuttle is available for a reasonable price; however, the first trip into town isn’t until late morning. That works well for the “been to the honky-tonks last night” crowd but not quite as well for the “I want to see the state capitol” crowd. In all fairness, the owner/operator of the shuttle puts in W-A-Y long hours and deserves a good night ... read more

So Matt has been home from Afghanistan for three weeks and we're leaving on our post-deployment vacation. We realized that we've seen so much of the rest of the world but really not that much of America, so we're staying domestic for the majority of this vacation. We're spending 10 days in Alaska, 4 days in Seattle, and 2 days in Vancouver. We left today to fly to Fairbanks, which was going to take three connecting flights...Nashville to Dallas, Dallas to Seattle, and Seattle to Fairbanks. We left the house at a little after 10:00am to drive to my sister's...she's going to take my car for the duration of the vacation (along with the dogs) and drop us off at the airport, God bless her. On the way to the airport I get a text message ... read more

Went to pick up our tickets to Friday nights Grand Old Opry show this morning. The Gaylord Opryland Resort is right next door. We didn't get a change to tour the resort when we were in Nashville last year so we decided this was a must see for this visit. The Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center is the largest convention hotel in the world, outside of Las Vegas. The hotel covers an area of 52 acres and the resort staff consists of 96 different Nationalities. The hotel was built in four different phases starting in 1977. The first phase (Magnolia) consisted of 600 guest rooms. When completed in 1996 the resort consisted of 2881 guestrooms. The Garden Conservatory was completed in 1983 as part of Phase 2. Phase 3, The Cascades, was completed in 1988 ... read more

Thursday morning we took the Grayline Home of the Stars tour. Amazingly the driver was the son of Dan Seals (a couple songs "Everything that Glitter is not Gold, "Meet Me in Montana" and a lot more). Dan Seals died at 61, but obviously didn't leave a fortune to this son. But he was an excellent guide with lots of good and humorous stories. We saw some fabulous homes including Dolly Parton's and Taylor Swift. Unfortunately I didn't write them down and after the tour couldn't remember who's was who's so you will just see some pictures of nice celebrity homes. Oh well - it was interesting at the time. Not bad for taken out of the bus window on the move. We had the tour driver drop us off at the Country Music Hall of ... read more