Had some bumps along the way but we finally made it up for the first of our days in Tennessee.
Original plan was to get into Knoxville around 6 or 7 last night and get a good look around town before heading to the hotel. That would allow us to spend tomorrow morning investigating areas that looked promising and enjoy ourselves before getting a start over to Nashville around 2-3 this afternoon. Remember what they say about the "best laid plans"? Well yeah I remember it now.
For starters Xander had a eye checkup yesterday at 1. I had made the appointment well before we planned the trip and did not want to cancel it but really, how long can an eye checkup take? Four hours later I had my answer. Seems that UAB Eye Care does a REALLY thorough checkup. Good news is Xander's eyes are just about perfect - slight astigmatism but nothing really bad - bad news is I was planning to be almost to Knoxville by now. We started on our way and had a really pleasant drive until the second hiccup happened. Seems that unknown to me Knoxville is in the Eastern Time Zone..so there goes another hour. Anyway, we stopped north of Chattanooga and had dinner and made it in to Knoxville around 10. So no late afternoon cruise, no early investigation.
When we went to check out this morning I asked the desk clerk what a good way to spend a Saturday morning in Knoxville doing was. Surprisingly she mentioned nothing about Knoxville, instead sending us off to Pigeon Forge. Seems kind of strange that a bigger city has nothing to call its own, and this place is beginning to remind me of Huntsville. However, we drove out to Pigeon Forge and enjoyed our time. Xander got some shopping done, we played some Putt Putt and had a pleasant day only marred by Paula's sun burn.
On the way out of town we dropped through Farragut. Not like most of the nicer areas I am used to seeing this was much more spread out..but you could almost smell the money. Seemed like a nice place but not sure we would enjoy Knoxville enough to make it work.
On the drive out to Nashville we stopped by Cookeville to see the campus for Tennessee Tech. Even though the town looked a little sketchy, the campus was surprisingly nice. Traditional looking campus buildings and lots of trees etc made me feel a lot more happy about my prospects there.
Even with the stop over in Cookeville we made it into Nashville around 6. But more about that on the next post.
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