Chattanooga still choo chooing away
Chattanooga has one of the best city names in the US, courtesy of the Muskogean people. Until this week, the only thing I knew about the city was that Glenn…
Knoxville, suffrage, and Great Smokey Mountains
Our visit to Knoxville was fairly underwhelming. We did go to Yassin’s Falafel house which was rated one of the friendliest restaurants in the US of A. Ends up, there is…
Nashville Country Music Mania
The sounds and party atmosphere of Nashville is pervasive with the heaviest concentration in just 2 throbbing blocks on Broadway, also known as the Honky Tonk Highway. The street itself…
Franklin doesn’t actually care
On the outskirts of Nashville lies Franklin, a small, affluent city. Franklin is ‘the first city in Tennessee’ that is LEED certified. For cities, LEED serves as a comprehensive framework…
Muscle Shoals
What an amazing experience to have a tour of the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in NW Alabama. Who recorded here? Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Etta James, Paul Simon, The Rolling…
Miss’ippi musings .. and hogs
From afar, Mississippi has always seemed so poverty stricken and I’ve always thought it must be a sad place to live. But the locals we’ve met here absolutely love Mississippi.…
Bein’ Sporty in the South
Paddling through the bayou amongst the Cypress trees and various water plants and lily pads took us into a magical world of birds (Great Blue Heron, Little Blue Heron, Night…
Mr D’s Fried Chicken
Dinah and I are currently on the Natchez Trace Parkway, an incredible gently curving road through forests that extends 440 miles from Natchez, Mississippi to Nashville, Tennessee. It follows a…
Hi, I’m Dinah from Seattle
The South is a foreign land to Steve and I, only having dabbled in it for work here and there. But for this trip, we’re all in, committed to getting…
New Orleans plays all the right notes
What an experience to be in a city where music can be heard everywhere. This place where Jazz was invented – and that is also a center of blues, brass band,…