Finally made it to a grocery store today and stocked up on some good food and munchy food. Bernie's first trip to the grocery store in 2010. It is still cool, rainy and gray in the city of Nashville so we headed down town to visit the Country Music Hall of Fame. It is very near Nashville's city skyline landmark "the Batman" building (AT&T building with two giant antennas that make it look like Batman) and the "District" which refers to the night life area around Broadway and 2nd.We were back at Camper's world for a 3:30 appt to get the furnace fixed - turned out to be dirt in the connections so it was not a big bill and we have heat ! Had a little e-mail from Karen Carmichael relaying a message that Billy would "loan" us his RV for the next trip since ours was having problems.Ha, ha ! Took a bus right from the camp ground downtown for the evening and roamed the District listening to country music, eating, more music, sipping, more music. There were lots of sights to see - people dressed for St. Paddy's day, some girls barely dressed at all passing out vouchers for the Coyote Ugly, police everywhere, musical street performers, cowboys and lots of lights and noise. And then took the bus back to the RV, Great way to travel in Nashville.
On the road Thursday morning by 9:30 and headed to the Belle Meade Plantation just south of Nashville. It was an interesting mansion restored to the mid 1800's with 2 floors open for viewing. It included the 1890's stable, smoke house, log cabin, slave cabin. It was the top Thoroughbreed farm in the US with most Derby winners (Seabiscuit, Secretariat ) tracing their bloodlines back to Belle Meade. After a picnic lunch we headed further south to Franklin where I found a quilt shop ! and Bernie found a Kubota dealer almost side by side. What luck ! After doing a bit of shopping, we took off to head south and found this wonderful road lined with huge, beautiful homes and horse farms. Miles and miles of fences and fields filled with horses. The next stop was Loretta Lynn's mansion, RV campground, mine, village but it was not open for the season so we had to settle for a walk across the bridge and around the grounds. It was back in the woods off the #40. It would be fun to come back when they are open. O well, we just cranked up Loretta singing "Coal Miner's Daughter" and drove to the KOA in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. Parked the Rv and Bernie started to set up and came to find out the man in the next lot was from Perth Andover, NB and he grew up in Holmesville, NB - Bud Dougherty. Small world.
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