I seem to have developed an unhealthy attraction to southern fried chicken.
Regular breaded fried chicken.
Spicy fried chicken.
General Tso fried chicken.
MBW: “What shall we do for lunch today?”
Me: “Fried chicken?”
So to be clear, we do have it with salad … but I suspect that I may have eaten my own body weight in fried chicken so far on this trip.
I’m pretty sure that I’ve consumed far too much coffee too. And chocolate. And possibly beignets also.
We stayed at Jaclyn and Katherine’s place last night in Knoxville TN. They finally got home and we had a nice chat with them, then hit the sack.
This morning it was -1°C again. There is a pattern developing that I don’t care for. That’s three days in a row now.
Jaclyn and Katherine’s AirBnB is one of those places where you actually live in their home, use their fridge and stove, etc.
MBW and I generally prefer to stay in places where we have a little bit of separation between ourselves and our host but that hasn’t always been possible.
But it was only for one night.
It’s a funny thing – in different countries you sometimes see things that you have never seen before and seem unusual.
This morning as we were leaving Jaclyn and Katherine’s house, a truck stopped out the front of the house, unhooked this huge vacuum cleaner hose, and proceeded to suck up all of the leaves that had fallen into the gutters.
After leaving the house, we took a spin into Knoxville downtown to have a look around.
Once again, nothing is open before 11.00am so all very quiet in the city.
We saw this sign outside a coffee shop in the city that was open. It’s the story of my life …
After deciding that there was really nothing much to do or see that early in Knoxville TN, we hopped into The Don II, pointed him towards Nashville TN and headed off.
The interstate was pretty quiet and it was a good run – about 2.5 hours.
I mentioned earlier about seeing things that are not common in Australia. On the interstate, it is not uncommon to see a truck towing a number of other trucks all connected to the back of the previous one.
We arrived into Nashville TN around noon today, dropped off our stuff at our AirBnB, and then drove into the city for a tour on a Segway.
Now I want my own Segway 🙁
After the tour, we went on our own walking tour of the city. What an amazing place, with live music in every bar, restaurant, and venue, with more buskers playing on street corners.
It seems like every second person is carrying a guitar around the street with them.
Jolene gave us some trouble tonight on the way home from Nashville TN downtown. We asked her nicely to take us home, and we were making good progress despite the traffic – not her fault – and we decided to do a really quick detour to our local Walmart to get some supplies for tomorrow.
The local Walmart is only a few minutes from where we are staying in Nashville.
She got us to change lanes a couple of times, then get onto a new motorway, then we were hurtling down the interstate at the normal 70mph heading in a direction that didn’t seem entirely consistent with my vague recollection of where we were staying …
Then I happened to look down at the screen and Jolene was reporting that we would arrive at our destination in 8.05 hours, after travelling a further 910km.
This was clearly an error and we corrected it by taking control back into our own hands again … getting us to Walmart and then home with no further mishaps.
No more news for today, sorry.
Tomorrow will be having a bit of a trip around the outskirts of Nashville to look at a Plantation house, and something really exciting tomorrow night … but I will save all of that for tomorrow’s post.
Today’s trip looked like this – 220mi or 352km.
We are now staying in Knoxville TN for 3 nights, so I suspect that we will be doing far more walking than driving for a few days. Should be a nice change.
The title of today’s post (and today’s song) is a country and western song and an ode to fried chicken.
One of my boys introduced me to the Zac Brown Band, and I’ve become a bit of a fan: Chicken Fried (ZBB).
Ciao
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