Wednesday 10th Sept - The Road to Nashville!

An earlyish start as we wanted to get to Nashville in good time. Perplexed by HOV (high occupancy vehicle) lanes which had signs stating "inherently low emission vehicles allowed" ?!! Arrived in Nashville earlier than expected as we had not taken account of the fact that we had crossed into the Central Time Zone so spent the afternoon at the Opryland Mills Mall and marvelling at the Opryland hotel. In the evening met up with Jay (Susan and Jim's son), Clare (his partner) and Julie and Jim (friends of Susan), at a BBQ restaurant. Good meal and good company. Jay has his mother's sense of humour and Clare a sweet intelligent girl. Jim works at Lockheed in Marietta and brews his own beer so he and Mike had plenty to talk about whilst Julie is a quilter, nuff said! After the meal Christine and I drove downtown to cruise past the live music bars including the famous Tootsie's bar, but did not stroll due to the difficulty of finding suitable parking.