Road Trip 6:.....Tennessee To New Orleans and Back To Florida

This is our Sixth trip and this time we plan to see friends in Tennessee and North Carolina then follow the Natchez Trace Trail to New Orleans. We arrive on the 6th September. We will:...
*See some friends and do some bluegrass in Florida.
*Pick up our Trailer in Knoxville
*Cross back into North Carolina and explore the Cherrokee area of the Smoky Mountains.
*Drive the Natchez Trace trail from Nashville to Natchez, then drive on to New Orleans
*We will get to Memphis this time.
We will then return to Florida to see friends, do more Bluegrass and lay up the trailer.
We fly home on the 2nd December.
We hope that you might enjoy sharing our adventures.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Shelbybville Ky (where?)

Had a dress down Monday, relaxed, read, played. Then mossy'd (?) on down to the town of Shelbyville, which is just near our campground. It is quite small, but has a nice historic district with a small museum (which being Monday was closed). Main Street is full of Victorian to Art deco shop fronts.
We stopped in at Mckinley's for lunch and were introduced to 'Hot Browns'. Fortunately this was toast, turkey, tomato, cheese sauce and bacon on the top. It was very tasty, with a cup of 'Unstuffed Green Pepper Soup'. Unstuffed, because the stuffing (ground beef, tomato etc) has been taken out and put in the soup, 'unstuffed' as opposed to 'not stuffed' at all, because that would have been called 'Not Stuffed Green Pepper Soup', or even, I suppose 'Just Green Pepper Soup', obvious, eh?
We then had a further stroll up the sleepy Main Street, found out that it was a really important town, because it was while he was staying here that Lewis found out that Clark had committed suicide (or was it Clark found out that Lewis had committed suicide) in Tennessee.
It is also probably the only community in this part of KY that does not have some link with Lincoln, his father, mother, wife or friends.

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