Admiral's Log: 8:25am, Fri. 9/16/16
Air Temp: 75 Water Temp: 78
Winds: calm
Speed: 7.5 mph
Eight boats; Rowe Boat, Liquid Assets, Have Another Day, Near Miss, Crazy Love, Trawler Life, Diva Di and Karine made up this day's flotilla. One of the boats called the Lockmaster and he told us we would not be able to get into the Cheatham Lock until 11, so we cruised kind of slow to kill time.
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| Another Eagle, can't get over how many we have seen on the Rivers. |
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| Near Miss and Trawler Life |
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| Have Another Day on the left, Crazy Love on the far right. |
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| Liquid Assets and Karine at the bottom of the lock |
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| The same 2 boats after the 17 foot lift. |
We arrived at the Nashville city wall at 3:30. There are 2 sides to the dock and there is power, which is pretty nice. Four of us docked on one side of the river and 3 on the other. Karine went on ahead to a marina. What an awesome location, short walking distance to downtown!
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| Approaching downtown Nashville |
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| This is the view from our boat, Titans Stadium |
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| Two of our flotilla across the river from us on the city wall. |
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| GPS shot of us on the wall and the stadium across then river, pretty cool! Notice all the restaurants we can walk too. |
We had heard about another Looper; Bee Haven, had run into a beam underwater, under the same pedestrian bridge we were to dock under. Apparently the city had removed an old bridge and hired a company to cut off the beams underwater. Guess they missed one, and Bee haven hit it and could not get off. They called a boat tow company to help them. The tow company ended up having to call the Locks at either end of the river so they could to raise the water 15 inches so Bee Haven could be floated off the beam! Then they were sent a bill for $9600! Needless to say they city is paying the bill and most likely suing the company they hired to do the work. What a mess! Luckily their hull was not punctured, but the city is paying for them to be hauled out and look at what damage occurred.
We had a short cocktails, cleaned up and headed to dinner at Rock Bottom restaurant.
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| The ladies hamming it up on the way to dinner. |
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Rock Bottom Restaurant
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Saturday, it rained pretty much all day. But we did not let that stop us. Several of us took the Old Town Trolley tour, which is a hop on hop off tour. We got to see the highlights, hopped off for lunch then go back to the places we wanted to see more of.
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| Just a snippet of the gold and platinum albums. |
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| Elvis' gold plated limo. (Sorry you can't see much). |
Music Row was very interesting. I just assumed most recordings were done in a couple of studios; like the famous Studio B. In the early days that was the case, but now most artists have their own studios. Most are in cute old homes so it's hard to tell a real home from a studio unless you see a sign in the yard. According to our tour guide, it's a lot cheaper because the artists can record whenever and how ever long they want to.
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| Nashville's Parthenon is a full-scale replica of the original in Athens, it wa |
Broadway is the main street in Nashville, and it reminds me of New Orleans, a lot cleaner and less smelly! In New Orleans there is bar after bar playing jazz, where in Nashville, it's bar after bar playing country music. They are all open to the sidewalk, so anyone can just stand outside and listen. I thought it was pretty neat.
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| Couldn't resist |
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| Alan Jackson's foray into the restaurant biz |
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| Romantic Carriage Rides |
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| These Pedal Bars were everywhere! Seemed most had Bachelorette groups on them. |
Tim and Carol knew a band playing at the Tin Roof, so they got us a bunch of seats and we listened to them for a couple of hours while the waitress brought out bucket after bucket of beer! By the time we left my ears were ringing, been a while since I've sat that close to a live band!
Mike and I had leftovers for dinner and watched Auburn's not so stellar performance against Texas A&M.
