Nashville, TN

We arrived in Nashville a day earlier than we had planned so we had to get a spot for just one night.  Luckily, the road the KOA is on is rv park central.  There are 3 of them in a row.  We found a spot at Jellystone RV Resort.  Buddy was having some allergy problems, so first on our list was to find a vet. Poor baby was itching up a storm.  A few days of Prednisone and he will be fine, they said.

 There was a little bit of everything there.  This is is from France!  A family with three small children traveling the world.  They had this behemoth transported to Halifax, Nova Socia.  The spent a couple of months there and Canada.  They entered the U.S. after seeing Niagara Falls.  They plan on staying in US for 10 months then head to Mexico.  From there they are having the rig shipped to Peru.  Sounds like a plan to me!

This rig was also in the park.  It was shipped over from Germany.  You might have seen this one on tv.  It was on some Big RV show.  They bought the rights to this painting and had it put on the side of this Prevost.  Don't you love how her face is reflected on the slide.

She is on both sides.  Too much reflection on this side to get a good picture.

                             Our first stop was Nashville's Parthenon.  This place is huge.

                      Now that is some big doors.  At 7.5 tons, I wouldn't want to be opening them!

Of course, they don't want you to even try.  Notice the dinky little chain they have on the handles.

This huge building and all it has in it is Athena holding Nike.  I don't know much Greek Mythology, so I had to read to find out who they were.

                                      A lot of hard work went into making all of these pieces.

            These were some of the molds used for all the pieces near the roof on the outside gable.  Notice the size.  It kind of puts things in perspective.

The grounds around it are very pretty too.  It is a nice size park with lots going on.

After leaving there, we headed for Doug's favorite show's place.  American Pickers!

The building was the Marathon Motors plant.  This huge building is now home to a collection of stores.  Lots of arts and crafts.  Handmade jewelry, clothing, handmade candy and even a winery.

 But of course, our stop was Antique Archeology.  The bike above set a land speed record in the 1970's.

If you watch the show, you might remember when they found this Indian motorcycle.  Someone bought it and was taking delivery of it today.

           That long trailer was full of motorcycles.  He must be one heck of a collector!  They had a hard time rolling it in since it had a flat on the back tire.

                        Frank put this pig head on.  I remember seeing that one.  Silly Frank!

                               Doug got a couple of t-shirts, so he was a happy camper.

                  The candy store next door, was known for its handmade marshmallows!  All kinds.

                                There was a car museum for Marathon Motors, of course.

It was a fun day!
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Plans are written in sand

We don't make plans too far in advance, because we change our minds too easily, and we all just like to, "go with the flow".  We were suppose to leave Bristol, Tn on Monday, the 12th.  Notice I said suppose.  Jim had problems with his equilibrium and that changed everything.  It's kind of hard to drive when the world keeps spinning.  So we stayed till Tuesday.  He felt much better.
We left Bristol headed for Asheville, NC.  The sands shifted again.  Sometimes flying by the seat of your pants, is not a good thing.  We couldn't find a campsite for the two of us.  I found one but not two.  So I called Jim and we pulled over and regrouped.  We tried every campground in the Asheville/Pigeon Forge area.  We found something closer to Pigeon Forge but decided we had been there done that and really had just wanted to go to the Biltmore again and take the butlers tour.  Since we couldn't get a place to stay close to Asheville, we decided to skip that stop and head towards Bowling Green, KY.
We stopped for one night outside of Lenoir City, TN.  Then the sands shifted again.  Or the world did, in Jim's case.  He had another attack of vertigo.  So instead of staying one night, we have stayed two here at Soaring Eagle campground.  
We had planned on staying a couple of days in Bowling Green because the guys wanted to go to the Corvette museum and the Corvette/GM plant.  Because of the difficultly finding a site in Asheville, we decided to go ahead and make reservations for a site in Nashville, TN.  Our arrival was booked for Friday, the 16th.  Now we don't have time to go to Bowling Green.
Sands shift again.  We are going to head for Nashville and stop one night on the way somewhere since our reservations aren't until Friday.  Bowling Green isn't but 65 miles from Nashville.  The guys are going to make a day trip to Bowling Green and see those Corvettes!  Libbie and I will find some shopping to do in Nashville.  I am sure we can find something.
Unless the sands shift again, tomorrow we head towards Nashville.  I am hoping we get out of this quicksand soon!  LOL
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Bristol Raceway

We didn't do much today.  Some cleaning, wash and cooking.  we hung around the campground most of the day.  The guys had some repair work to do on Jim's step.  His part hasn't come in and they tried fixing the part, or what ever they did all day.

After doing all our chores around the bus, Libbie and I rode over to Bristol Raceway.

We drove around and found an open gate and went in to check things out.

This is a half mile track.  It looked small to me.

There doesn't look like there is enough room to get all those cars on pit road.

There was a tour bus taking some people around the track.  We never saw an office to find out about tours, so we just took our own.

It wasn't so bad walking down all those steps.  But going back up, was terrible.  My life flashed before my eyes, 3 or 4 times.

 Can you see Libbie up there?  Look where the red and white meet.  See her now?

There was a huge poster acknowledging  Jeff Gordon and his last season.  You could write on it.  Neat idea, some of the comments weren't nice though.

Jim cooked supper tonight and it was very good.  We had grilled pork chops and great northern beans and cornbread.  We also grilled a salmon steak to see if we could do it.  It was good too.  For our first time cooking salmon, I think we did very well.  It's a learning process.  It was good, but I think we can do better.

It was a simple day, but a good day.
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