Date: 04/15/14
Official Location: Kentucky & Tennessee
About two months ago, the wife and I decided to take a little "us" time and drive down I-75 until we got to some warmer climes. It had been a brutal winter, and I have to confess, it was the kind of season that makes you want to consider moving to a place like, well, Tennessee. It's warmer now, and I have returned to my Midwestern sensibilities. Anyway, here's a picture or two to illustrate how we vacation and how my persistent immaturity apparently does not.
Our first nature walk in Tennessee.
Didn't Walt Disney freeze his head?
Wouldn't that make this the most authentic Disneyworld?
I suspect this is a side effect of enjoying too much Frozen Head.
After being forced off the highway by detours, we stayed in a real classy Howard Johnson's in Nicholasville, Kentucky. This was wedged in the missing peephole. It was one of the nicer amenities.
They also made it very easy to identify which part of the carpet was the best place to store the iron.
(Sadly, someone had already stolen the iron.)
I suspect the Nicholasville/Lexington Howard Johnson's is well known to a number of these.
This is where the mother-in-law is from in Tennessee. Their football team is the fighting Wartburg Bulldogs. Really? No one considered Wartburg Warthogs? Isn't it just better to embrace your weirdness?
m. karvinen
