River is rising in Nashville, Tennessee

Friday September 3, Labor Day Weekend 2010

Hi again everybody,

Although today marks 57 days on the road, I need to do some backtracking to day 38 of our journey. We rolled into Nashville on August 15^th and it was hot and... you guessed it... raining. By then we had learned how to have fun in the rain so we ventured forth. We went on a bar crawl, listened to some good music and had the best barbeque so far. Check out the pictures. I think the guys in the second band were better looking than the first but it might have been the beer. We never even took pictures in the third or fourth bar. They had girl signers who I remember were very talented and beautiful. I told Fred to holster his camera. We also continued our search for good Mexican food. Once again it was very different, due, in part, to a lack of Mexicans. Nashville is still rebuilding after the May flood so the big attractions were closed. The campground we stayed in bordered the Cumberland River as did the nearby homes and all had been flooded. Many of the campers were construction folks working to restore the Grand Old Opry, the Gaylord Hotel and the Opryland shopping center. I'm including pictures of the river with this dispatch and you can see the change from one day to the next. As the rain fell, we stood in a park watching the river rise with people who had just gotten back in their homes. They were so scared that it was going to happen again and for a few hours it looked like it might. After five days of steam heat in Nashville, we took off for a hamfest in Huntsville, Alabama. I hope you get a taste of Nashville from the photos that Fred took and the captions I wrote.

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From the road

-robin