DAY TWO…
Posted on | July 4, 2009 | No Comments
I’ve always dreamt of driving cross country. i was attracted to the romance. i imagined myself, hair tied back, dirty, blasting music, wearing leather mary Jane’s i had made in michigan and feeling free. i threw those shoes out years ago and gave up on the idea. i guess i realized there is no romance in being smelly.
dan and i (when i say dan and i, i’m really saying dan) planned this barbeque crusade across the south. why? we’re not sure. so here we are, two days in. North Carolina was great. the people were friendly and everyone drives the speed limit (perplexing). i must admit, i’m not a fan of western north carolina style barbeque. it was lost on me.
Today we woke up in Asheville, i had the best tofu scramble of my life and was ready to go. we drove the Blue Ridge Parkway through The Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Absolutely beautiful! we stopped in Gatlinburg, Tennessee at the salt and pepper museum. amazing museum, 20,000 s&p shakers, scary town. it was a cross between Niagara Falls and my worst redneck nightmare (not that there’s anything wrong with that). Next stop M&M Barbeque Knoxville. two thumbs up for the pulled pork. stopped to pose with a giant pink elephant in a bikini and we were off to Nashville.
I had high hopes for Nashville but Nashville showed no love. We’ve been talking about Hot Chicken for weeks. Prince’s Hot Chicken, to be specific. they were closed. all hot chicken shacks were closed and will be closed tomorrow. oh wait, all restaurants were closed. Here we are, the 4th of July, downtown Nashville, it’s pouring rain, what do we do? we eat Ethiopian and go to the movies. Que Sera, Sera
Tomorrow is another day… country music hall of fame, the Loretta Lynne Museum and some sort of bbq something.
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