While my low intensity posting may look like post-election funk, the truth is that we’re midway through our first real vacation in 15 years.
We started with the Kentucky Derby weekend and are now in Nashville (perhaps my favourite city in America) with tours of Civil War battlefields planned for the coming week, before we hit the road for home.
Many thanks to our capable co-bloggers for holding down the fort! Be good to them.
Enjoy!
Generally I don’t enjoy visiting cities but will be passing through the Nashville area in the next two weeks on my bike. Hmmn, I think if Kate likes it, I’ll have a look. Enjoy your vacation…and the decline!
You go.
Safe travels.
Enjoy your vacation!
Hope you are enjoying. Don’t know what’s on your agenda, but I did a middle-school trip to Gettysburg and Colonial Williamsburg. Enjoyed both.
I loved Gettysburg, but only when I became old enough to read about its history and digest its significance. No Southern tour would be complete without a long weekend in DC.
Shiloh (aka Pittsburgh Landing) is quite good, as is Fort Donelson. But the most spectacular one out west is Vicksburg.
Keep your eyes open for a nice farm.
Good for you. If you’re traveling straight north Kate check out the amazing Hotel at “French Lick”.
https://www.frenchlick.com/west-baden-springs-hotel.htm
Also in sleepy Minden Nebraska is a western development type museum you will need two days to explore. An incredible collection of….
https://pioneervillage.com/
Stay safe.
Have fun. If the Predators were worth anything and were in the playoffs, you could have taken in a hockey game. Fun arena and major party zone in the streets surrounding it. Safe travels.
Hope you had a few bucks on Sovereignty to win. Safe travels.
Sovereignty should have been my hunch play, but instead wrecked my Derby triple. So close…
Nashville was always a favorite stop on our travels usually incorporating it while traveling into the deep south using the Natchez Trace Parkway to Louisianna.
https://www.nps.gov/natr/index.htm
Thanks Kate
Enjoy your vacation Kate.
Trashville, were buying a beer was impossible when I had a job just east of there.
Back than it was a rubehole.
Apparently you were able to purchase a lobotomy there.
Bluddy
Butt you don’t have a lobotomy, as you would have to grow a brain first.
NME666
They assessed you and realized that you weren’t worthy of a beverage.
There may be rules in Tennessee about serving the mentally ill.
ebtit
So that is why you don’t go down there for a brew.
TN isn’t the only a$$hole state were there are dry holes, Kentucky is another one.
All my ex’s live in Texas, that’s why I never set foot in Tennessee because of the Full Faith and Credit Clause. I would have had a country and western hit with that, but the title was too cumbersome.
And the rubes were all well acquainted with his hole.
A place where the rubes became acquainted with your hole? An experience best enjoyed sober!
ewe outing yer self there anto BOY? Jessica the gay COLON is just yer BOI.
You’ve smoked a lot of sweaty hogs from what I’ve read on truck stop bathroom walls.
A reputation as wide as your rectum…
Clearly all the poundings from the pounders is preventing you from forming cogent thoughts, let alone correct spelling and punctuation.
Rube? Pot calling kettle, over.
Yer mighty stoopid ain’t cha?
Wanker.
Geez, guys, this is starting to sound like a courtship ritual. It’s a sad thing about gays: once they’ve gone for the rectum, it’s hard to correct ’em…
A well-deserved break, Kate. Take it easy and savor the food and sights.
You’ll be back to herding (SDA) cats soon enough, so don’t rush.
Kate
Having lived in the South for decades, be on the lookout for not only Civil War battlefields but Revolutionary War battlefields as well. I always like to travel through some of the small towns following Sherman’s March to the Sea.
I visited the Stones River battlefield memorial site a few years ago which is in Tennessee. It was always on my bucket list to visit a civil war site. The graveyard gives a glimpse of the senseless cost.
I remember having fun in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. I was 12.
That’s funny Kate … because my local KTVU Fox News local station here in the SF Bay Area has featured numerous stories and interviews this morning with people claiming the shocking loss of Canadian tourists are going to crush the Bay Area (and US) tourism industry. Because Orangemanbad. Because tariffs.
Kate! Please come visit our human poop! Our local criminals are counting on it!
Enjoy the GOOD part of our country.
Enjoy your vacation! We’ll try to avoid leaving the place nothing more than a smoking hole in the internet. 🙂
I suggest a visit to Chattanooga, TN. It’s a nice smaller city with Civil War sites, icluding Misionary Ridge, Lookout Mpontain and Chickamauga. The Nashville area has battle sites nearby, including Franklin, Nashville and Stones River. My family had members serving with Iowa and Illinois regiments in both the Army of the Cumberland and the Army of the Tennesee. Others were in New York and Maine regiments in the Army of the Patomac. I also have Canadian Loyalist ancestors that rooted for the South.
Have fun
It’s a bit of a hike from Nashville (Tennessee is a ridiculously WIDE state), but if you can get to Shiloh, it’s pretty amazing. You may even see the peach orchard in blossom. But many of these battlefield parks are huge, so count on at least half a day. Also, many do not have eateries on-site, but have picnic areas available. The staff are amazingly friendly and very knowledgeable.
At shilo parking lot reading these, did Franklin yesterday.
My favorite town in Tennessee is Gatlinburg. Gorgeous. When I was first there, pop. was around 5000.
Welcome to Dixie, hope you enjoy the Natchez Trace.
Hope you brought your motorcycle, it’s a perfect day for it here in South Carolina.
Monticello is a must if you’re in Virginia. I visited in fall 2023 and was blown away by the architectural brilliance of Jefferson. I hope to buy some land and build my own version someday. Might as well visit University of Virginia while you’re there (also Jefferson designed).
No one has mentioned the Bourbon Trail in Kentucky, Frankfort , Leretto, Bardstown, Lexington….and a little thumbs up to Jack Daniels in Lynchburg Tn
You should be vacationing in Australia, Lady Kate! But then again, our govmint is as bad as yours, and I may be spending a first ever cold Christmas with friends in B.C. next year…
Have a great vacation! Bring back pictures for us.
“Have a great vacation! Bring back pictures for us.”
Yes, please do…
Longtime Nashville reader here. Welcome! For Civil War sites, I recommend taking a tour of Carnton Plantation in Franklin, about 30 minutes south of Nashville. It was a key site in the Battle of Franklin and bloodstains are still visible on the floors where the wounded and dying were laid. Very knowledgeable tour guides.
Agree, it was excellent