I arrived and set up camp at Two Rivers Campground on Wednesday - spent the rest of the day just hanging out, reading brochures, playing in my iPad . . . Useful stuff like that! Today (Thursday), I sorted out coupons, looked at maps, and more or less planned out what I want to do in Nashville. I got tickets electronically for a Grand Ole Opry performance Saturday night, so that's nailed down. Around 11:00, I consulted the office staff (very helpful) about distances. I had decided to see stuff within walking distance today, and had the office book me on a tour of the city starting at 1:30 tomorrow afternoon. I walked a mile and a half down Music Drive to the Willie Nelson Museum - a tiny bunch of displays, with a very entertaining video of Willie and other country singers reminiscing in Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, a bar in Nashville where country singers (unknowns then; stars now) went to carouse and write songs. Loved watching that! The museum is in the back of the building; the front of the building is basically a souvenir shop - yes, tacky - but I am a tourist, after all . . . I walked past a few hotels and stopped for lunch at a Cracker Barrel - finally - have been wanting ti visit one for two years! I thought it was just another fast food restaurant, but it's actually a country store - yes, with lots of souvenirs, but also clothes, lotions and potions, Christmas decorations - and a restaurant where I had turkey with all the trimmings for $4.70. Actually decent quality, too! I walked back towards the campground, but it had turned windy and my back was hurting and I was starting to feel a bit shaky, so I stopped at a hotel and called a cab - cost me $4.85 to get driven back to the campground. I was very, very pleased to have lasted so long - a few months ago, I wouldn't have even contemplated doing all that walking - but thanks to the chiropractor, my knees and feet and back held out remarkably - in fact, I still have no pain at all in my knee - just the lower back, and that's not very bad, either. Augurs well for the rest of this trip!
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| My Nashville campground |
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| Fence around the Opryland Hotel grounds |
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| Willie Nelson Museum |
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| Inside the Museum |
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| The Man himself! |
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| The store part |
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| Inside Cracker Barrel restaurant |
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| The country store part |
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| Entrance to Cracker Barrel |
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| Ending the day with Mike's Margarita, bought in the campground store/ (Notice my awesome quilt bag in the background . . . |
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