Nashville
Got back to Nashville after 5 day tour with 2 spanish guys who were really nice! We went to Memphis, Misouri, Kentucky and saw Carl Perkins birthplace. We also went to Mammoth Caves which is the longest cave system in the world and its pretty amazing. The first tour took us 360 ft underground and we saw all sorts of limestone formations. Then the second tour was a latern tour with no lights except the lanterns and we saw remains of tuberculosis hospital and saltpeter extraction used to make gunpowder. Was so amazing. Pics to follow (hopefully!)
Staying in motels was fun as well. It rained heavily one night and we had an amazing lightening show as Ornesto passed us to the west which we watched from the motel.
Spent one day in Memphis watching the Mississippi river go by and relaxing, that was definitly on my 'to do' list and the Mississippi river is the most beautiful river I have ever seen.
It was labor day on Monday and Ron (guy in charge of the hostel) had a barbeque which was good. Derrick (guy who works at hostel) and myself went to see chinese circus on Sunday and this one performer piled 10 chairs up. The legs of the bottom chair were resting on bottles and she then balanced ontop of the 10 chairs on her elbow!!!
I am going to spend the next few days not doing very much, I want to relax and see Nashville and talk to people. Everyone is so friendly here and wants to know everything about Scotland. I went to church on Sunday with Ron and it was very weird, people waving their arms and chanting and dancing, all very modern but kinda fun and nice. One of the best foods they serve here is pork. You can get a full rack of pork ribs for about a tenner and its HUGE! They also believe in covering everything in sauce or dressing and I have eaten SO MUCH in the past few days! You can even get popcorn in any flavour you want and those of you who know me know how happy that makes me!!!
Nashville is actually pretty small, its about half the size of Edinburgh. I went downtown with George (one of the spanish guys) the other day as he wanted to buy shoes - no luck, the only shoes in downtown Nashville are cowboy boots!! You have to go to the mall way out of town if you want shoes!
Driving on the right is fun as its not difficult and all their cars are autmatic which makes driving so easy!
I hope you all got ahold of the picture of me at the Jack Daniels Distillery! I am going to head downtown now for a coke - and coke tastes so much better in America!
Got back to Nashville after 5 day tour with 2 spanish guys who were really nice! We went to Memphis, Misouri, Kentucky and saw Carl Perkins birthplace. We also went to Mammoth Caves which is the longest cave system in the world and its pretty amazing. The first tour took us 360 ft underground and we saw all sorts of limestone formations. Then the second tour was a latern tour with no lights except the lanterns and we saw remains of tuberculosis hospital and saltpeter extraction used to make gunpowder. Was so amazing. Pics to follow (hopefully!)
Staying in motels was fun as well. It rained heavily one night and we had an amazing lightening show as Ornesto passed us to the west which we watched from the motel.
Spent one day in Memphis watching the Mississippi river go by and relaxing, that was definitly on my 'to do' list and the Mississippi river is the most beautiful river I have ever seen.
It was labor day on Monday and Ron (guy in charge of the hostel) had a barbeque which was good. Derrick (guy who works at hostel) and myself went to see chinese circus on Sunday and this one performer piled 10 chairs up. The legs of the bottom chair were resting on bottles and she then balanced ontop of the 10 chairs on her elbow!!!
I am going to spend the next few days not doing very much, I want to relax and see Nashville and talk to people. Everyone is so friendly here and wants to know everything about Scotland. I went to church on Sunday with Ron and it was very weird, people waving their arms and chanting and dancing, all very modern but kinda fun and nice. One of the best foods they serve here is pork. You can get a full rack of pork ribs for about a tenner and its HUGE! They also believe in covering everything in sauce or dressing and I have eaten SO MUCH in the past few days! You can even get popcorn in any flavour you want and those of you who know me know how happy that makes me!!!
Nashville is actually pretty small, its about half the size of Edinburgh. I went downtown with George (one of the spanish guys) the other day as he wanted to buy shoes - no luck, the only shoes in downtown Nashville are cowboy boots!! You have to go to the mall way out of town if you want shoes!
Driving on the right is fun as its not difficult and all their cars are autmatic which makes driving so easy!
I hope you all got ahold of the picture of me at the Jack Daniels Distillery! I am going to head downtown now for a coke - and coke tastes so much better in America!
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