Tennessee Travel Blogs

Ruby Falls in Chattanooga was a must see. So off we went and found our way there. It’s a pretty easy, and best of all, it was open!!!! A rather high price to pay for admission, but then I think everything is too high a price. As seniors we paid $13.95 each plus tax. It’s a ride on an elevator d…

That year I booked and purchased a ticket to Spain, my cousin was getting married and we arranged everything to attend the wedding. Sometimes you plan everything in anticipation, had everything set, but at the end things just don't turn the way they should.  One month before the trip, from all…

Out last day, we packed up and loaded the car.  Driving was a bit easier now that I’d had some practice.  We got out of the National Forest with no problems and only minor slowdowns through Pigeon Forge.  I could not help myself and we stopped at the “world’s largest ‘As-Seen…

Saturday morning saw us packing up to leave Ashland and head south to Tennessee. We would spend a couple of days in Tennessee. Today we would be in Nashville and then tomorrow in Memphis.   We pulled into the eastern outskirts of Nashville to visit "The Hermitage", President Andrew Jackson's…

About an hour from Atlanta, it began snowing off and on.  I didn't think much of it because nothing was sticking.  I got to Ashville, North Carolina and suddenly the snow was falling in buckets and blowing all over.  It looked like someone had a pillow fight where the feathers c…

This day was the most wonderful of my whole America trip, it was the day I would fulfil my dream of visiting the Grand Ole Opry. Tim's text woke me up early, 'i'll be there in 30mins', uh oh I was still in bed damn. I quickly showered and got changed and met him outside the hostel. He'd been worki…

Knoxville's McGhee Tyson Airport is very nice. The big airports like Denver and Atlanta will and can walk you to death trying to catch a connecting flight. And you have to hop on the car rental shuttle and travel to the rental car pick up area.  Not here, everyting is compact and to …

We didn't set an alarm & didn't wake up till 0830. We strolled down to the convention center & usually on the last day there is less people & chaos. This was Nahville Star day for me as almost everyone I met appeared on the show. We met 2005 nashville star winner ERICKA JO. She was…

This trip was very much worth the long drive. The caverns are commercialized so if you want more than just the standard walking tour but nothing too strenuous then this is definately it! Cumberland Caverns has 3 adventure options. I believe the caverns are also available for weddings and parties. T…

My wife loves visiting National Parks and well, although not as much as she, I do too. We had intended on flying over to Rapid City, South Dakota and seeing Mt. Rushmore and the Black Hills area.  We were also going to visit Devil's Tower in Wyoming, and sneek up into southeast Montana. …

Today was a chill out day for us so we drove over to the Opryland area to walk about the Hotel and the huge shopping mall, Opry Mills. There I had one of the best meals at the Aquarium. The dessert was also one of the best in my life and I swear I had a smile on my face the entire time I was eating…

I can't seem to read just one book at a time.  I'm most of the way through Forgotten Kingdom by Peter Goullart, getting in the mood for Lijiang.  He was born around the turn of the 20th century in Russia and fled with his mother eventually to Shanghai around the time of the Russian…

I was pretty excited to be going to the South for the first time and was even more excited that I would be hitting 3 states in total.  My friend Noah had decided to fly into Little Rock as it was the cheapest flight around and from there we would take a rental car and drive immediately to Memp…

Just to take a couple-day respite, I went to Memphis, Tennesee with a couple travel buddies.  It's just a four-hour drive from our home in Southern Illinois, so we were able to pack in quite a bit in during our two-day trip. Leaving bright and early Wednesday morning, we arrived in Memphis ab…

We drove to the Bristol Motor Speedway because I like race cars.  The big race was just held recently, so it was pretty quiet there.  We drove in to take some photos of the race track, but we couldn't get close enough to see the track.  We did find an official pace car, though! …