Day 26 Nashville

The sun rose on a beautiful day. It was easy to believe that last night’s terror hadn’t happened except everyone was milling about the campground sharing their war stories! One couple who were standing by the river watching the torrent of water make the surrounding trees tremble mentioned that they lived close to water in New England and so subscribed to a National Weather Service update. An email had come in this morning based on their current location confirming that Little Pigeon River had risen by 8 feet of water!!  Truly this morning the storm seemed almost like a bad dream. The scary part of our night was in the potential unknown. In the end we were fine but the fear of what might happen, especially as those around us lost their homes, was quite terrifying!



This entire poor tree was quaking with the force of the current!

Not quite the little mountain stream of a day ago!

Today was planned as another travel day and life does go on so we were heading west on I40 by early morning. The roads through Tennessee are great and we were checking into our campground just minutes down the road from the Opryland in no time. Speaking of time, it took us a few minutes to figure that out. We gained an hour as Nashville operates on Central Standard Time. Took us a bit to work that out as some electronics (cell phone) switched automatically while others (tablet and GPS) did not. Left us discombobulated for a while but we are marching with the band now!

We have discovered that maps here are interesting. They are generally printed to highlight a specific area but we haven’t yet been able to find a map of the entire city! Thinking I was being smart I started to look for maps that overlapped and thought I could move back and forth as necessary. In a crazy twist folks here are not consistent in printing maps. Where one will display north at the top on the map (in the natural order of things!!), others choose different orientations. North can be top, bottom, left or right depending on the map and that creates a bit of a challenge in quickly moving back and forth between one and the other. Not to be foiled I did manage to figure out where we were in the bigger picture and we have (I hope!) worked out a route to downtown, parking and a rough idea of the first things we will do in this city that appears to offer a never ending slate of attractions to amuse and entertain. Tomorrow will tell. Stayed turned for tales from Nashville – Music City USA!