Today we drove just over 600 miles, about 11 hours in the car. It’s a rare trip where we’re all together, except our oldest son who is out on his own now. In his place, […]
Tag: tennessee
2020 Plans
As 2020 begins, I’m busy making plans for upcoming road trips. I have a goal in 2020 of visiting 52 sites I have never been to before, one for each week. Along with that, there […]
Photo of the Week – Dec 17
Just outside Camden on March 5, 1963, Patsy Cline’s plane crashed. A number of others were on board with her. You can visit the site, they have a parking area, and then you can walk […]
Cairo – March 2018
As a child of Cincinnati, I’ve been fascinated with the Ohio River my whole life. For a number of years, I’d wanted to visit Cairo, IL just to see where the Ohio spills into the […]
Photo of the Week – Dec 3
This week’s photo is a Bald Eagle taken at Fort Donelson Battlefield outside Dover, TN a few years ago. We didn’t expect to see this, nor did we expect to get so close, or we […]
Tennessee State Museum – Nov 2019
A couple of weeks ago, Adam and I went to the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville. The museum is located just north of the Farmer’s Market, at 1000 Rosa L. Parks Blvd. The facility is […]
Photo of the Week – Nov 5
This week’s photo is from a trip to Jack Daniels Distillery in Lynchburg, TN. This particular visit was in 2012. What you see in the picture is the ‘rickyard’ where they make charcoal that is […]
Photo of the Week – Oct 15
This week we have a photo from 2012 that we took in Waverly, TN. Waverly was the home of a horrific train explosion in 1978, which killed 16 people. The names on this marker signify […]
Mississippi River Day Trip – Sept 2019
Last Saturday, Nathan and I embarked on a 13 hour trip that took us to the NW corner of Tennessee, across the Mississippi into Missouri, down to Arkansas, and then back. As usual, we discovered […]
