Wednesday May 30, 2012

Hello All,

Today we got up and went to the Ryman, the Mother Church of Country Music! It was amazing! Only problem is I forgot the camera! Arrrrrrrrrrggggggggg! So those images will only be in my head!
We are going back tomorrow morning so I can get a few pics, but I have to say I won't forget a moment of it. They have showcases around the building telling stories of the stars with there clothes or guitars...It is very cool... They also have a timeline upstairs and that was crazy interesting. Enrico Carruso, played there? Harry Houdini? Who would have thought it? Gary was reading the timeline and I went up into the balcony and looked down on the stage. I got super emotional just sitting there..Hard to imagine all the big names that played there.
Maybe even Bill Green who played with Johnny Cash in the 1958.... :)

We met some "Woody Folks" for lunch, Steve and Nadia Faria, who were here in Nashville and saw on the blog that we were too. Fun time was had by all...

Oh dear, more car trouble today so after lunch we headed back to the hotel so the "car whisperer" could work on the car... He did and of course, it is fixed and running great!


We got the last two seats at the Bluebird Cafe for a singer/songwriter roundtable tonight that was incredible! How can so many talented people be in one city?? The Bluebird is in a little strip mall about 6 miles from downtown. Not at all what I thought it was going to be.... A lot of famous people have played there and from the outside you would never know it... Surprising!

Tomorrow we are off to Memphis....

See ya on the Road,
Ter :)

"From the driver's seat"...... Nashville, the city of exceeded expectations....we went to the Grand Ole Opry last night and were blown away by the talent and history on that stage. Tonight we went to a 'writers sing' session at the Bluebird Cafe where four song writers sang their creations, every one of them spectacular. Nashville is one place I'd like to visit again...we barely scratched the surface of the local music talent here....

We also visited the Ryman Theater, the site of many different types of performers from the late 1800's to present day...some friends are attending a concert there tonight.

Speaking of those friends, Steve and Nadia went for a ride in the woodie and shared a delicious lunch with us at the Noshville Cafe, kind of a NY deli style restaurant... great food, lots of laughs...we'll see Steve and Nadia again at the end of June at Woodies on the Wharf....thanks for the treat!!!!

Car wise, the plug wires I had so cleverly hid behind the exhaust pipes were quietly baking away and subsequently disintegrating, causing me the latest batch of problems so I just pulled them all out and replaced the whole batch....there were problems on the horizon with a couple others so I'm glad I did it.

Looking forward to relaxing in Memphis at a car show Graceland!!!!! How cool is THAT????