663 miles. 10 hours and 50 minutes to Nashville, TN.
After 8 hours of driving, we were still in Virginia. For those of you who have done the trip out West, you can attest to just how frustrating it is to drive what seems like endless hours and still be in the same state. To add insult to injury, we were under such a time crunch that we could not stop and enjoy any of the VA vineyards or the Shenandoah views.
Finally overcoming the Virginia state border into Tennessee, we felt accomplished enough to stop. We spent our first night in Knoxville. An early start and another two hours finally brought us to the Country Music Capital of the World. I made sure to whet our appetites with some good old country tunes by Rascal Flatts and Tim McGraw. John didn’t enjoy my attempts to practice country twang as much as I did.
We pulled into downtown Nashville welcomed by cowboy hats and neon signs pointing to BBQ’s and boot sales. A quick stroll on Broadway led us to Elivs…who recorded some 250 song between 1956 and 1971 in Nashville…
some serious cowboy boot sales…
and the famous Jack’s BBQ.
We could smell the hickory-flavored smoke from the street and we followed our noses right on through the door.
Visited by the likes of Jessica Simpson, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Billy Bob, and Russell Crowe, any uneasiness surrounding the unmarked meats was put at ease.
And what did we find? Jack did not do us wrong.
So, when in Nashville, look for the Pigs over Broadway sign and enjoy the comforts of southern living at Jack’s BBQ. Just be sure to leave out your “please” and “thank you’s” as I was called out for being “too darn polite to be from Nashville.”
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