The Grand 'Ol Opry? Who woulda thought?
We were out of Sikesville, MO early enough to flounder around trying to find the National Recreation Area known as "Land Between the Lakes", aka LBL. Let me tell you, the atlas maps in the eastern Missouri, western Kentucky and western Tennessee areas really suck...Even Lee's 'girlfriend" (aka the WAZE app on the iPhone) had trouble figuring out where to go.
We stumbled our way into LBL and stopped at the wildlife refuge area where animals who had been injured could not be returned to the wild were kept for treatment and observation. Owls, snakes, coyotes, elk, groundhogs, turkeys...all the local fauna were kept in pens for viewing by the tourists. Interesting but most of the animals we had seen.
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| Possum |
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| Horned Owl |
Leaving LBL, we headed for Nashville as a way station heading home to VA. We called and got a room at the Springhill Suites in Nashville, again using Marriott points. The last four nights have been free, and that is nice.
Naturally, when one is in Nashville, one has to visit the Grand 'Ol' Opry. We did that. Actually, we had attended a performance there years ago and this was a return visit. We took a backstage tour to see the behind-the-scenes settings for this American icon. We are not fanatical country music fans but we both like the older country music.
While Toni got an autograph from Mike Rowe of "Dirty Jobs", Lee scored this time with a signed program-autograph of "Little Jimmy Dickens", a country star from the past. On the tour, Lee was the first to shout out 'Little Jimmy Dickens" when the guide asked who was the owner of the PO box 144 in the Opry Post Office and was the shortest country music musician.
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| Outside the hall |
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| Been here, loved it |
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| Jimmy Dickens autograph |
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| Stars dressing room, one of 19 |
We had a fairly early night in preparation for 'running' home tomorrow morning. 238 miles today, 2,000,000 tomorrow (seems like it).
Can't wait to get home to see Rose..
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