Day3: Nashville,TN to Searcy, AR

After a good night sleep and little refreshing swim we are on the road by 8:30am.

Driving through Trump area, we did see lots of solar farms

Lunch in Memphis, but after Nashville this Blue-grass music city was a disappointment. And it was unbearable hot hot hot!! Like 95 Fahrenheit 🤪

We did Beale Street, walked 100 steps along Mississippi River (way too hot), car free Main Street. But not much excitement.

The afternoon drive was more interesting, through agriculture region: soybean fields (harvesting), cotton fields, rice

Visiting in Searcy Grant and his family. Grant was my first boat captain and my year round summer kid #27. His son Daniel of 18 months is really a cutie.

His wife Trixie is a biology Professor at Harding University and lives chickens. She named them after cities they visited during their 2015 European trip: Paris, Deinze, Eeklo, Lillo, Leuven,

Deinze is the white roaster, Leuven is light brown and Eeklo is the proud dark hen.

We had a real country dinner in the Rambler Grill (fried okra, sweet potatoes waffle fries, …)

Day2: Asheville,NC to Nashville, TN

Little swim, big breakfast and ready to start the road at 9am.

Only a 4 1/2 hours drive today – first part through Smoky Mountain

Going into Tennessee and gaining an hour!

First impression of Nashville: growing city with lots of construction and high cranes

Second impression of Nashville: whoa such a chaotic music (and noise) when walking Broadway!! Every bar has their own live country music and needs to set it loud so they are louder than the neighbor bars ….

Happy hour at the Wildhorse Saloon, which I visited too in 1998 with Veerle, summer kid # 15

Of course we did a live country music show: at The Nashville Palace (where Randy Travis has even been a cook and dish washer …). We saw him in the bar in a wheel chair (couple years ago he got a stroke) . The performers gave us a Journey if 60 years country music born

Day1 Charlotte, NC to Asheville, NC

A relaxed morning, first watching first World Championship Road Biking, and at 1:13pm or military time 13:13hr we started our road trip! Together with Dany’s sister Arlette and her husband Daniel.