Nashville, Thursday, day 4

Today’s blog will be short, not that nothing happened, but it was a day of routine, maintenance, shopping, and eating. No good photo ops.

We started out with a plan to hit a bucket of balls at a nearby golf course, pick up needed supplies, and return to the Gibson guitar place for a look a the manufacturing in progress. Well, we did the purchases and while in a new part of town, found an excellent BBQ restaurant – called Famous Dave’s. I believe it is a franchise, but not one I’m familiar with. Anyway, Margaret (our resident BBQ connoisseur) declared this to be the best BBQ she’s ever had. We now have their web-site and plan to order from them when we get back to Fernandina.

After stuffing ourselves, we weren’t in much of a mood for much else so we came back and did the few needed chores, took a nap, and that was the day. So much for exciting life on the road.

I’d like to take some good photos of the Nashville area. It is quite picturesque, what with the rolling forested hills, the Cumberland River meandering through. But the smoke continues to create hazy, whitish conditions. Sometimes you can smell the smoke, but mostly it’s just a haze over everything. The TV folks say it is from the Georgia and Florida fires and there was a report of some fires in the Appalachians – not far from here. Anyway, it all makes for difficulty in finding a good photo op.

The road system is quite good. Besides the three Interstates crossing here (I-24, 40, and 65), Nashville has a large number of local highways built as limited access with 3, 4 and sometimes 5 lanes (plus exiting and on-ramp lanes). It would be smooth sailing except many of the people here drive like maniacs! Yesterday, for example, driving down to Carnton Plantation, the speed limit was 55, I was doing 65-70, and I was the slowest car on the road – and this is with 3+ lanes of traffic. It will be good to return to small town driving!