Ben has accepted a job with the FASB/GASB in Norwalk, CT and decided he wanted to drive all his things up to his new home. He (kindly) asked me to go with him and I (gladly) accepted! I have named this trip our “Great Northeastern Trip.” Hopefully the trip itself will live up to the name!
Day One of the trip:
We left Dallas bright and early at 8am heading east on 30. We made a pit stop in Texarkana, a Subway lunch break in Little Rock and made it to the famous Graceland by 3.
Graceland is a place of its own. I don’t know if I can recommend it to anyone since we actually didn’t make it inside. We decided the $70 entry fee wasn’t worth it and we made a trip to the gift shop, then turned around and walked right back out.
11 hours after we pulled out of Dallas we arrived in Nashville. We passed the time by playing crossword puzzles on my new Kindle Fire, scanning the local radio stations and quizzing each other on New Years Resolutions and what we hope to see in the upcoming year. Overall the drive flew by until the last hour. We were pretty ready to get out of the car at that point.
Once in Nashville we got fancy cocktails at “The Patterson House,” a recommendation from Patrick Timson. It mimics a speakeasy from the 1920s, down to the curtains at the front that separate the hostess from the bar itself. The cocktails take about 5-7 miuntes EACH for the bartender to create but they were worth it. Anyone visiting Nashville should make a stop here.
We grabbed dinner at “Uptown Flats,” a recommendation from a friend who lives in Nashville. We missed the Wine Down Wednesday by 5 minutes, but still enjoyed our flatbread pizzas before crawling home to fall asleep. We hope to leave for DC at 6am in the morning….we’ll see how that goes!!
Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville
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