… and, we’re back
End of the road(trip) 2012 So, after an overnight flight, we arrived back in cold London. Well, colder than Houston, anyway! We saw a lot of things, ate a lot of good food, heard lots of good music and sampled some decent local beers, too. Although, somewhat ironically, the one most prevalent seemed to be Blue Moon from Denver! After unpacking, redistributing clothing, food items and various souvenirs (and trying not to fall asleep) started looking at the hundreds of photos and realise I have some work to do! We drove 1,589 miles, saw countryside ranging from mountains to beach...
More travels in my home country
We left Nashville yesterday, driving through Jackson, Tennessee, on our way to Memphis. You may not know this, but Jackson, Tennessee is the home to Casey Jones’s Village – a museum and shops dedicated to the memory of Casey Jones a railroad engineer killed trying to save the train and passengers on his train, the Cannonball Express when it collided with a stalled freight train at Vaughan, Mississippi, on a foggy and rainy night. We stopped, had some good ole down home cookin’ and experienced a bit of America none of us had seen before. Then today, we started with...
News from Music City, wrong side of the pond
Well, I have to say Nashville’s been nothing like I imagined. I never imagined that you can’t throw a cat in this town without hitting a musician… I’m travelling with my English wife and two of our English friends, and they all enjoyed it too. Tonight we went to the Grand Ole Opry – hey, it’s Nashville, what else are you going to do? – and the experience was pretty good. It was one of the radio shows they do there every week and highlights the talent that is the membership of the Opry. The headliner was one Alan Jackson...
