6/13/18 - Wednesday - Nashville

Today was a day to stay out of the boat (mostly) and explore Nashville.  We walked across the pedestrian walk bridge to downtown at a little after 7am.  Found a place for breakfast (The Corner Bakery) which I came to find out is a chain and ther is one recently opened in Columbus (Polaris).  It was yummy.
We walked around and saw some sites (most things were not yet open. Went into the visitors center and got a map and some info on what we wanted to do.  We went into the 21C hotel which also houses a pretty cool and thought provoking art museum (for free!). Touched base via phone with Norma who said she would come back downtown to go to the John Cash Museum with us.  The Johnny Museum was very well done and we enjoyed it a lot....nice to have had you join us Norma!  We then decided to go to the Country Music Hall Off Fame Museum.  It was also very nice...and BIG!  We stayed there for a few hours until cousin Jimmy called and said that he and his son (Johnathon) had gotten off work early and wanted to know if they could come down for a boat ride and to hang out.  They have lived in Nashville for over twenty years and had never been on the Cumberland River.  After a short cruise through downtown and north of the city the four of us went back up to "The District" to go to some honky tonks and visit.  We started at Honk Tonk Central where Jim and Johnathon had a couple beers (we enjoyed our Cokes) while listening to some good live music.  Jimmy reached his 2 🍺 limit and had to be at work early tomm so they took off.  Renee and I continued up the road to Tulips where we found a VERY good band that we enjoyed very much.  On up the strip we wandered as we were both getting hungry.  Found a BBQ joint (Rippeys) that also had live music (everywhere has live bands in the district!) and enjoyed a nice dinner.  To end the evening we slowly strolled back down Broadway toward the boat while stopping periodically outside many of the places to listen for a few minutes to the different bands.  We got back to the boat after 9pm tired and with some sore feet from walking all day.  Our usual evening cup of joe and bedtime it was....zzzzzzz
A great day in Nashville in the books!

That's my boat!

Outside they Ryman Auditorium

The building with the bat ears was filmed in the batman movie

21c museaum, this is a really cool piece of artwork.  the description says to take a picture of it with the flash on. this is without the flash.

This is the same picture with flash camera on, pretty cool artwork!

Johnny Cash through the years, at the Johnny Cash museaum

Johnny Cash Museum

Johnny Cash Mieum

At the world famous Tootsies Orchid Lounge jammin and dancin!

Broadway in  "The District"

Aquaholic in Nashville💗

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