Nashville

Yesterday (Thursday) took us through St Louis where we did take time out to stop and see the Arch again as last year. Temperatures were 20 degrees cooler than our last visit and we missed rush hour traffic making our stop less stressful. If you look through our photos, you will find a webcam shot of us at the Arch. We passed through Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and into Tennessee stopping in Nashville.

By chance we stopped for gas near the cornfield where, last year, we ate lunch and phoned friends. Another small mechanical problem with the shifter today. Again someone stopped to check on us, I hope that we will be as lucky one day when we have a more complicated problem. Near the boarder of Illinois and Kentucky we passed through the town of Metropolis, home of Superman... again not a lot to see on this part of the route.

Last year when we came through Nashville we thought it would be a good place to spend a little time so we will stay two nights here. We are walking distance to lots of entertainment on Broadway and Thursday night spent some time listening to music at a couple of spots. By midnight there were women dancing on the bar, as fate would have it the ones at our end were long past the table dancing age but didn't seem to know or care.

Today Friday we trade the Hilton for the Hampton next door, long story but they didn't seem too happy to see us arrive and not too upset when we canceled the second nights stay. Spent the afternoon walking around town, sitting around the pool and tonight we will find some more music and get ready for the last leg of the ride home.