Blogs from Tennessee, United States, North America - page 103

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

The ride from Memphis to Nashville on I-40 is beautiful. Dogwood and redbuds galore! Nashville exceeded our expectations. It’s clean, safe, and user friendly; and also funky and fun. We parked the RV near the Country Music Museum - it is sometimes hard to park something as large as The Schooner in a city. The Country Music Museum is a real treat - beautiful building, awesome collection, and fabulous display techniques. We could enter little circular booths and be surrounded by music from a single recording with information about the artist and the piece on the wall. An extensive Ray Charles exhibit was the feature. We loved the video history of Country Music on TV so much that we wanted to buy the DVD (NFS). The costume collection is outstanding. We only had two hours ... read more

Map: Loops, etc. Here's a map showing our route over the course of a week and a half. It's embarassing, really, the big figure eight... Our original plan was to try and make it up to Pittsburgh, PA from Nashville, but only realized that it was nearly impossible to do this via freight train, without going through Chicago, after we'd made it to Clarksville. The easiest way, it turns out, is to go from Knoxville (not again...) east to Spencer, NC and then jump north. So here we go...... read more

Our longest road trip to date started on Thursday 22 March with the drive back up to Athens. Georgia is socially quite different from Florida, and the most obvious sign of this (apart from the shotgun toting, overall wearing, 'pickup' driving farmers), is the change in radio stations that occurs as you cross the border. Thursday was a beautiful day and I was rocking along to the local station until it finally faded into distortion about 50 miles over the border. Rather than reaching for the CDs I decided to listen to some of the local stations. Well, if you're not interested in listening to some bloke sing about his dog, truck, illegitimate child or cheating girlfriend then don't bother turning the radio on. There is pretty much nothing but Country music from the time you ... read more

Hello Friends and Family, Greetings from a place where there is no snow. We made it on the first leg of the sweet adventure to Nashville and we are going to check out some night life! WOOOOOOOOOO! our stop tonight is Tootsie's Orchid lounge. It will be a swanky break from the midwest, and all bets are off. We would like to thank everyone who was involved in, contributed to, or attended our wedding for all your help and thoughts and efforts and prayers. It is obvious to us that God has blessed us through you. Well that's all for now. Enjoy the pictures. Cheers, Caleb (and Nici).... read more