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Its Monday, March 14, and we have been on the road for two months. Time has gone by so quickly and we have done, and seen so much. Its amazing to believe that we are on our way home, with only a few more stops to make. We are looking forward to our stops with friends and family, and we are looking forward to being home.
We went to the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday night. When Russ called to check on rv parks, several offered shuttles to the Opry, so that's the route we went. This time we were not, definitely not in parking lot. That was a nice change. The Opry was amazing. Last year the new Opry building was flooded out and had been performing at the old Opry in Nashville. We were pleased when we found out that the new Opry building was where we were going to. The building is huge, and the ground are gorgeous. The Opry complex includes a huge hotel (we only saw from the outside) and a large mall. We heard from other people, that with the flooding, the mall has gone under. Oh, darn, I couldn't go shopping!
The Ryman facility had been a tabernacle, thus church pews. The new Opry has church pews also. The Opry is a continuously running radio show-I didn't know that. Of course, I am a newcomer to appreciating country music. The two hour show is broken up into four segments, with each one having an 'emcee'. There's commercials every so often, and the announcer is on the stage. There's alot of movement going on with mikes being switched out and entertainers, and such. The entertainers sing two, maybe three songs, and chat with the 'emcee' and the announcer. I don't know what I was expecting, but it was different. And it was very enjoyable. We had a great time. (I'lll have to dig out the program to see who we saw. George Hamilton IV and V-and Diamond Rio-I thought it was one guy, didn't know it was a group who had been together for 20 years-I am just learning so much.)
Sunday, we to 'downtown' Nashville. Russ finally got what he was looking for-live music. We went from one bar/saloon to another and listened to some good music. One we went into had an older gentleman singing. His singing was okay, but, boy could he make a good train sound!! I'm really into trains now. Just about every park we have stayed in has had a train close by. My fault this time, I picked the park, and the train found us.
So today we are in Clarksville, ID, which is just over the Ohio River from Louisville, KY. Couldn't find a park in Louisville, for some reason. We moved in early this afternoon, and had places to go. We wanted barbecue and we wanted to go to the Louisville Slugger museum and factory. Its where every grandparent of boys and baseball players should go. There's a 120 foot bat outfront and more smaller ones inside. Did you know that major league bats are made in 45 seconds. Minor league bats take 30 seconds. Up until 1980, the bats were all individually and handmade. These bats took 30 mintues. Of course, there weren't as many teams then and there weren't as many ball players. It was an enjoyable afternoon.
And, Russ has also been looking for good barbecue. We went looking. First one was closed (looked permanently); second one was closed on Mondays; third one was opened and it was great. Looked like a local place (three police officers were sitting at the table next to us), but there are several in the area. Its called 'Mark's Feed Store'. They even had fried pickles, but we bypassed those. Mondays they give you a free dessert of Buttermilk pie. It was very sweet-sort of like pecan pie without the pecans. Also, they gave us a free bottle their barbecue sauce since we were Mark's Feed Store newbies. We loved free stuff!
Tomorrow we are headed to Middletown, OH. We'll be visiting with friends Lea and Bill Teager. Its been a few years since we have seen them, so it will be nice to visit. Then onto Hershey, and family.
See you all soon. love-linda
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