Nashville RV Guide: Where to Camp, What to See, What to Skip

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Nashville by RV—without the chaos. In this episode we share how we camped near Music City, what we’d do differently next time, and the truth about downtown parking (dually owners… yikes). We compare Nashville Shores vs KOA/Opryland, break down Ryman vs Opry (the move is different than you think), and hit Hattie B’s, Five Daughters, and more—plus the bypasses, lane choices, and rideshare realities that save your sanity.

You’ll learn:

• The two realistic RV basecamps for Nashville and who each is for

• When to bypass downtown vs. brave it—and why Google’s “15–20 min” is fantasy

• The dually-parking trap (and safer alternatives)

• Ryman vs Opry: tour vs show—how we’d plan it next time

• Our honest take on Country Music Hall of Fame (and what to do instead)

• Quick eats we loved (Hattie B’s heat levels, Five Daughters minis)

Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_00 (00:05):
Where is the number one destination for bachelorette
parties, at least based on myvision?

SPEAKER_02 (00:13):
Your vision?
The amount of That'sfrightening.
Nashville, Tennessee.

SPEAKER_00 (00:19):
There were so many.
There really were.
And we're not gonna talk anyabout that at any capacity
coming up next on the RVShenanigans podcast.
Welcome back to the RVShenanigans Podcast.

(00:41):
I'm Dodo Brain.

SPEAKER_02 (00:44):
And I'm Lauren.

SPEAKER_00 (00:46):
Not gonna lie, this is our second podcast today,
third in a couple of daysbecause of the travel we have
coming up, and I was stretchingfor something there.

SPEAKER_02 (00:54):
He's had lunch.
He's ready for a nappy nap.

SPEAKER_00 (00:56):
Yeah, and by nap, I mean sit at my desk and work
some more.
Um no, so we're gonna talk aboutNashville, Tennessee.
Um, spoiler, it's one of my newfavorite places.
Um, but there were so manybachelorette parties.

SPEAKER_02 (01:08):
They were everywhere.

SPEAKER_00 (01:10):
And I'll preface this by saying we're not big
drinkers and we don't normallygo out very late anymore.

SPEAKER_02 (01:18):
That's true.

SPEAKER_00 (01:19):
And by late, I mean like 10 p.m.

SPEAKER_02 (01:22):
Oh, I meant like nine.

SPEAKER_00 (01:23):
Okay.
Well, nine's like normal, likehome and in bed by nine.

SPEAKER_02 (01:26):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (01:27):
I'm saying like 10's too far.

SPEAKER_02 (01:28):
Oh, too far.
Yeah.
100%.

SPEAKER_00 (01:31):
Ultimately, why did we want to go to Nashville or
the circumstances around goingto Nashville?
Because I know they don't.

SPEAKER_02 (01:38):
We wanted to go.
Well, I wanted to go for mybirthday.
Um, and I really just wanted togo somewhere that we hadn't been
before, see something we hadn'tseen before.
And this was on both of ourbucket lists.

SPEAKER_00 (01:48):
Yep.
So I will say we very early on,and I'm not gonna say maybe we
didn't know for the first 10years of our relationship how
much we wanted to travel.
We tried to travel.

SPEAKER_03 (01:57):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (01:58):
Um, but when we got to that point, we started doing
stuff like slash had money to doit, um, we kind of went, I want
to see more stuff.
And so we both kind of made alist, and and it's a rather
lengthy one too.
Well, mine is.

SPEAKER_03 (02:12):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (02:13):
Okay.
Um, and so Nashville was on thatlist, I'd argue, probably top
five, top ten.

SPEAKER_02 (02:18):
Yeah, definitely.

SPEAKER_00 (02:19):
Um, at least in the US.
I mean, there's obviously otherthings I want to do outside of
the US, but in the US, it wasdefinitely top five.

SPEAKER_02 (02:26):
Yep.

SPEAKER_00 (02:26):
Um, but we're fans of country music.
And so we always felt like atsome point we should go there
and at least see that aspect ofit.

SPEAKER_02 (02:33):
And particularly, I would say for me, like older
country music, not necessarilywhat's popular nowadays, but I
would call it older.

SPEAKER_00 (02:40):
That's triggering for some people.

SPEAKER_02 (02:41):
It might be, and that's fine.
I'm in my 30s and I like oldercountry music.

SPEAKER_00 (02:46):
Well, hold on.
Define older country music.

SPEAKER_02 (02:48):
So uh see, he wants me to get like bad heads or
something.

SPEAKER_00 (02:55):
No, what what era of country music are you talking
about that you say you like thebest?
That's what I'm trying to getat.

SPEAKER_02 (03:00):
So for me, like starting with Reba and Trisha
Yearwood and Clint Black, GarthBrooks, backwards.

SPEAKER_00 (03:09):
Okay.
So let's say 90s and backwards.

SPEAKER_01 (03:12):
Yes.

SPEAKER_00 (03:13):
So maybe a scooch in the 2000s.

SPEAKER_01 (03:15):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (03:16):
But it's it's it's it's the the closer to the 2000s
you get, the less and less thatbecomes.

SPEAKER_02 (03:21):
Right.
And then you start getting intomore of like the classics and
the people that influence them,and I think that's cool.
Definitely a Dolly fan.
Um, so it's just that's myversion of older, not today's.

SPEAKER_00 (03:34):
It's a little different today.
It is.
Not that it's necessarily bad.

SPEAKER_02 (03:40):
Moving on.

SPEAKER_00 (03:41):
All right.
So obviously, we're talking alot about country music because
that is what rules Nashville.
So Nashville has been around fora hot minute.
We've got, in my opinion, one ofour better destination videos on
it.
Um so do you know you knowNashville's nickname, don't you?

SPEAKER_01 (04:01):
Music City.

SPEAKER_00 (04:02):
Music City.

SPEAKER_01 (04:02):
Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 (04:03):
Um, and so did you know w how it got that name?

SPEAKER_01 (04:08):
Because there's music.

SPEAKER_00 (04:10):
But it's had that name since like the 40s.

SPEAKER_02 (04:13):
Because there was music.

SPEAKER_00 (04:15):
Oh yeah.
But so there was a travelinggroup back then when gospel
music was really all that wasout there um called the Fisk
Jubilee Singers.
I looked stuff up like a monthago.
You can remember that, butcouldn't remember where I ate
the second day.
But I remembered that for somereason.
I also edited the video andthat's in there, and so I saw it

(04:36):
like 37 times.

SPEAKER_02 (04:37):
All right.
So we've got the Fisk Jubilee.

SPEAKER_00 (04:39):
And so they started, they did it like a traveling
revival kind of a thing.
And so they that's where, andbut that was the first kind of
introduction to music fromNashville, which was kind of a
more modern upbeat version oflike a bluegrass gospel
combination kind of a thing.
So and then that's where it kindof got that name.
And then since then, that typeof music had been produced in

(05:01):
Nashville for uh ever into now.
I mean, from then till now,essentially.
I mean, I believe I heardsomewhere that there's something
like 1,500 working artists thatcall Nashville home.

SPEAKER_02 (05:13):
Oh, I believe that 1600 something.
It's not more, to be honest withyou.
Yeah, well that may be just thesingers.

SPEAKER_00 (05:19):
I mean, you're not maybe there's yeah, I'm sorry,
yes, artists, actual like rightsinger-songwriters, singers,
performers, that kind of stuff.
I'm not talking about just bandmembers and all that stuff, like
actual artists.

SPEAKER_03 (05:30):
Okay.

SPEAKER_00 (05:30):
Um, and I don't know if that includes like I know a
lot of them use Franklin aswell, which is just a suburb of
Nashville's just south a littlebit, which is a cute little
town.
We've just never been there.
I've seen pictures.
Um, because this isn't aboutFranklin.

SPEAKER_03 (05:41):
That's right.

SPEAKER_00 (05:41):
Um, but yeah, it's it's a it's a very, I'm gonna
say interesting town becauseit's somewhere there's a lot of
historical stuff there.

SPEAKER_02 (05:49):
Yeah, it was a mix.

SPEAKER_00 (05:51):
It was it's probably the biggest mix of historic
versus new versus you know, allof that stuff that I've ever
seen in a city that's embracingboth.

SPEAKER_02 (06:00):
Yeah, I agree with that.

SPEAKER_00 (06:01):
I think some cities that have an older feel to them,
like like say Boston, they theykind of lean on that historic
side quite a bit on the tourismstuff.

SPEAKER_03 (06:10):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (06:10):
But then you have other cities like LA that's the
opposite, like it new and flashyis all the all the thing there.
You know, there's not a lot ofold historic stuff there to
begin with, but they don'tnecessarily lean on it anyway.

SPEAKER_01 (06:21):
So that's a good point.

SPEAKER_00 (06:23):
All right.
So we obviously took our RV.
This is the RV Standing'spodcast after all.
Um, how did you feel aboutgetting into Nashville?
And obviously, I'm gonna saythis.
We came from the west-southwest,so we drove up from the North
Texas area.
So we came from the Knoxvilleregion towards nope, that's past
it.
We came up from like Memphistowards um Nashville.

(06:44):
Knoxville's on the other side.

SPEAKER_02 (06:45):
Good job.

SPEAKER_00 (06:46):
Um, I figured that out as I said it.

SPEAKER_02 (06:48):
Geography.

SPEAKER_00 (06:49):
Um, so we came in from essentially the west side.
Um driving in RV throughNashville is it's fine,
everything's fine.

SPEAKER_02 (06:58):
It it happened.

SPEAKER_00 (06:59):
Um it's on the it's on the more stressful side of
things.
I I but it wasn't on it wasn'tnot doable.

SPEAKER_02 (07:05):
Yes.
So one of the things that Ifound is that they have a lot of
like highway interchanges, itseems, where roads come in and
go out.

SPEAKER_00 (07:14):
Odd ones too.

SPEAKER_02 (07:16):
Yes.
And so you had trouble kind offinding which lane we really
needed to be in in a timelyfashion.

SPEAKER_00 (07:21):
Right.

SPEAKER_02 (07:22):
And then a lot of those ramps backed up.
And so kind of by the time yourealized where you needed to be,
there was a line and we weren'tin it.

SPEAKER_00 (07:28):
Right.
When you're 55 feet long, 50feet long, or bigger, that it's
as you know, if you've driven abig rig or anything like that
through traffic and you're like,oop, I'm in the next zone lane.

SPEAKER_02 (07:37):
Right.

SPEAKER_00 (07:38):
It might take a hot minute for you to be able to get
over, or you need to get over sothat you get into the merging
lane, whatever.

SPEAKER_02 (07:43):
And before you say, weren't you using your maps?
Yes, we were using three.

SPEAKER_00 (07:47):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 (07:47):
Um, but they don't tell you which lane to be in
early enough sometimes.

SPEAKER_00 (07:51):
Yeah, I was gonna say early enough.
Some of them do, or they do itin a weird way.
Like the Garmin, the Garmin isgreat like 85% of the time with
that stuff.
Sure.
But when it drops the ball, itfull-on drops it.
It really is because it's like,okay, you've got this
intersection.
Like I've had some things pop upwhere it's a confusing
intersection and it shows thewhole intersection and your
little line.
I've had it where it's like thelines coming at you in the top

(08:13):
right corner, and you just stayin that lane or two lanes or
whatever it identifies.
It wouldn't even tell youanything.
It's like stay on 45.
Like, well, where the crap's 45.
Give me a little hand herebecause I don't know where I'm
supposed to be when I'm you knowhalf mile out getting close to
this thing and it's starting toget really busy.

SPEAKER_02 (08:29):
So and there's generally we found a lot of
traffic.

SPEAKER_00 (08:34):
It's not the great well, okay, downtown.
Um we didn't use for the mostpart, we didn't use the external
highways that go like around thecity very much.

SPEAKER_02 (08:44):
Yeah, I didn't find they were as conducive as they
are in other places, you know.

SPEAKER_00 (08:47):
No, the highway system there was probably a
little misdesigned.

SPEAKER_02 (08:52):
Just a little to be desired.

SPEAKER_00 (08:54):
But I don't know what the you know, 15, 20 years
ago, there might have been adifferent need than there is
now.
So who knows?
Um, but yeah, it was it wasfine.
It was just a little stressful.
So I'd say go through Nashvillewith a game plan.

SPEAKER_02 (09:05):
I would say buckle up buttercup.

SPEAKER_00 (09:07):
Well, okay, that's what she told me in the car,
actually.
But I'm serious.
I would I would get a game plan,look at Google, look at Google
Maps, and understand kind ofwhat you're getting into before
you get into it.
Just whatever you stop, whateveryour last stop before you go
into Nashville is, it is one ofthose towns too that if you're
on the line of like I need fuel,we need to use the restroom,

(09:27):
stop.

SPEAKER_01 (09:28):
Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 (09:29):
In our last episode or a couple of episodes ago,
depending on when this one comesout, I went to Hershey.
I had to go right throughNashville.
I made a point to stop outsideof Nashville because I knew what
I was getting into before I wentthrough it.

SPEAKER_02 (09:40):
Which is so interesting because also when we
went to Pigeon Forge, we had togo through Nashville.

SPEAKER_00 (09:44):
But we didn't.
We didn't around it.
We used one of the bypassesbecause we were going because of
where we stayed, we couldn't dothat.
We would have to double backalmost twice as far as we went
the other way.

SPEAKER_02 (09:53):
I was trying to think because I don't remember
the traffic being that bad inthe city.

SPEAKER_00 (09:57):
And I I thought about that because it's not the
most direct route.
It will, based on like RV lifeand Garmin and all those things,
it'll add a few minutes.

SPEAKER_02 (10:05):
Okay.

SPEAKER_00 (10:05):
Worth it.

SPEAKER_02 (10:06):
Yeah, worth it.

SPEAKER_00 (10:07):
It's kind of like that bypass in Shreveport to get
around all the stupidity that'sdowntown Shreveport roads.
Um, just yeah, it's five minuteslonger.
It's so worth it to bring yourstress level down.

SPEAKER_02 (10:16):
I believe that would be loop 220.

SPEAKER_00 (10:18):
And I forgot in Shreveport.
Yeah, that one's ingrained now.
Um, but I don't remember what itwas.
But it's a bypass to get to theeast side from the west side, or
vice versa.

SPEAKER_03 (10:27):
Okay.

SPEAKER_00 (10:27):
Um, and I completely forgot about it.
So on the way out, I didn't takeit and I wish I had.
And then on the way back, I tookit and it was so much better.
So much.
So yeah, when we went to PigeonForge, we just missed downtown
Nashville completely.
You can kind of see it off inthe distance, but not all that
great.
So um there are not a ton of RVparks to pick from.

SPEAKER_02 (10:44):
No, there weren't, like surprisingly few.

SPEAKER_00 (10:46):
And realistically, there's about two areas too.

SPEAKER_02 (10:49):
You're right.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (10:50):
And that's about it.
Now, you as you start gettingmore outside the city, yes,
there are.
But most people that go toNashville are there for Lower
Broadway, Country Music Hall ofFame, Ryman, all of that stuff.

SPEAKER_02 (11:01):
Gonna stay at one of the hundreds of hotels right
there in that area.

SPEAKER_00 (11:06):
Um, there, the two areas we're gonna talk about the
one we didn't stay in first, andthat is up where the KOA is.

SPEAKER_02 (11:12):
Right.

SPEAKER_00 (11:13):
And there was another one up there.
I don't, it was like threerivers or something like that,
but I believe it's Lauren saidit seemed like the KOA may have
purchased them.

SPEAKER_02 (11:20):
Yeah, whenever we would try to do it online, it
kind of looked like it took usto a KOA site.
Um, and even just driving by itkind of looked like they may
have now been rebranded.
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (11:30):
Integrated.

SPEAKER_02 (11:31):
And so, but those are up by the uh the Opry.

SPEAKER_00 (11:33):
Yeah, they're close to the Opry.
Um, and also up by the Opry isthe Gaylord Opry Land Hotel,
which is like the Gaylord Texanhere, Gaylord Palms in Florida.
Same idea, different theme.
Um, that's all up there.
Uh, and then there is a coupletwo to be specific.
There's a COE slash state parkfor Tennessee, something like
that, down on the I don'tremember the name of the lake.

(11:56):
That's we'll call it Lake ofNashville.
I know I'm wrong, but that'sokay.
It's just wet east-southeast ofdowntown.
The lake at the very top of itis um I just drew a blank on
ours.
Shores, Nashville Shores.
Nashville Shores.
There we go.
I kept wanting to say lakeshores for some reason.

SPEAKER_02 (12:12):
Well, Joe, it's nap time.

SPEAKER_00 (12:13):
It's yeah, that's too much stuff going on time.
Um so Nashville Shores, whichwhen I first initially looked at
it, I'm like, oh, cool, nicelittle RV park on the thinning.
And then as I deep dive a littlemore, I'm like, oh, it's it's an
RV park and a water park.
And a water park and anadventure park.
Interesting.
Jet ski kayak rental boat placeand and also some trails.

SPEAKER_02 (12:36):
It wears a lot of hats.

SPEAKER_00 (12:38):
I would argue it is a water park first.

SPEAKER_02 (12:41):
I completely agree with you.

SPEAKER_00 (12:42):
And I and we knew that before we went.
So before anybody says, Well,how come you didn't do your I
did, I knew, I still went.
Um, because I do think that forwhat we were looking for, um,
with a reasonable proximity todowntown, there is no great
downtown RV parks.
There's nothing close by.
Like New Orleans has that onethat's not too far from Bourbon

(13:04):
Street that you can kind of walkaround at.
Nashville's not like this.

SPEAKER_02 (13:07):
And you may map some of these and say, but the map
says it's only 15, 20 minutes todowntown.

SPEAKER_00 (13:11):
And that's 30 to 45 easy.

SPEAKER_02 (13:13):
That's a lie.

SPEAKER_00 (13:14):
On a good day was 30.
Yeah.
Um now with our dually, too,another little, well, let's
focus on the RV park.
Um, it it's it I thought it wasa good park.
It's a little tight in spots.
Now we got fancy pants, Lauren'sbirthday weekend site.
So we had a deluxe back inwaterfront.

SPEAKER_02 (13:32):
That's right.
We got to stay right on thewater and watch all the people
in their stand-up paddleboardsand jet skis and stuff.
It was fun.

SPEAKER_00 (13:39):
Eat it.
It was hilarious.

SPEAKER_02 (13:41):
It's our entertainment.

SPEAKER_00 (13:42):
Yeah.
Well, you tried paddleboarding,which we'll get into a little
bit, and you did not eat it.

SPEAKER_02 (13:45):
We are we were those people too, and what everybody
got got to watch us.

SPEAKER_00 (13:50):
So, no, but um, I you know, we stayed down on the
water.
There's two real main sectionsto the park, which is you feel
like you're going to the waterpark at first, and then as soon
as you check in and you go pastthat little area, it makes a lot
more sense.
But up until that point, it doesnot.

SPEAKER_02 (14:06):
No, and some of the um water park patrons weren't as
patient with us as an RV tryingto check in and like there's a
little place where you'resupposed to pull over, and they
yeah, they were they were alittle hasty over there.

SPEAKER_00 (14:20):
It's typical, nobody understands RVing unless you're
an RV or situation.
So yeah, pack your patiencepants with that.
And I say that it all depends onwhat time you're that's true,
coming in.
I don't know if it's openyear-round.
I'm assuming it is.
So if you're going in thewinter, you're probably fine
because the water park's morethan likely closed.
Right.
Um, but we we happen to begetting there as the water park
was closing and letting out.

SPEAKER_01 (14:41):
Oh, yes.

SPEAKER_00 (14:42):
And so the road coming in once you get past like
the ticketing booth, the parkingbooth thing, which you just blow
right through.
Um, and purposely, they tell youto.

SPEAKER_02 (14:50):
It's not like we took out the gate arm.

SPEAKER_00 (14:53):
Um, it's not the widest thing in the world, and
there's a few turns that you asour RVers take wider.
And there are people that liketo cut corners that don't have
RVs coming at you.

SPEAKER_02 (15:02):
And there were speed bumps too.

SPEAKER_00 (15:04):
Right.
And so, and of course, like withR rig, it's doesn't like speed
bumps.

SPEAKER_01 (15:08):
No, it doesn't.

SPEAKER_00 (15:09):
And so I have to come down almost to a complete
stop because these were prettybig speed bumps.
Um, just so I didn't know that Iwas, you know, flipping things
around the kitchen kind of athing.
Right.
And so it it it I I don'trecommend coming as the park's
closing.

SPEAKER_02 (15:22):
That may have been a tactical error.

SPEAKER_00 (15:23):
So now with that being said, nobody was going the
direction we were going, whichwas nice.
So like when I pulled over, Iwasn't and it was not in
anybody's way.
Yeah.
But like even just trying tocross the road from the pull-off
to there was kind of a painbecause like people just weren't
paying attention.

SPEAKER_02 (15:34):
No.
And I will say that if you are afamily and you're going for
summer activities and you wantto do the water park, I think
this is a number one greatplace.

SPEAKER_00 (15:43):
You just walk over, it's not, and I believe that you
have the ability to get there alittle earlier because you're
yeah, I was trying to read someof that stuff.
And you also do get discountedtickets.
So, full disclosure, if you aregoing to go to Nashville Shores
and you want to use the waterpark, unlike Lauren and I, um do
not buy your tickets online forthe water park.
Wait, buy them there becausethey will be like 20% less.

SPEAKER_02 (16:05):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (16:06):
Just because you're staying.
You have to buy them from thecamp store because they need to
know you're staying there.

SPEAKER_03 (16:10):
Yep.

SPEAKER_00 (16:10):
So I would stay there again.
Maybe.

SPEAKER_03 (16:15):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (16:16):
I don't know that we would.
So this is gonna come back atthe end of the show, but I would
stay there again if I was goingto RV Nashville.

SPEAKER_02 (16:23):
Right.

SPEAKER_00 (16:24):
That's my disclaimer.
Remember that.
I said that till the end.

SPEAKER_02 (16:26):
Let's put a little asterisk next to that.
Okay.

SPEAKER_00 (16:28):
Because I'm not sure that we're gonna RV Nashville
again.
We'll go RV through it.
Um, so with that, as far as thelocation of the park, you know,
obviously most of the things aredowntown or just east northeast
of downtown.
Grand Old Opry.
Yeah.
Um, that is where most of theaction is.
We went downtown twice, Ibelieve.

SPEAKER_02 (16:49):
Yeah, we did.

SPEAKER_00 (16:50):
We could have gone downtown like five or six times.

SPEAKER_02 (16:53):
We really could have.
And that's why we that's whythere's an asterisk next to the
RVing thing because we reallyenjoyed downtown.

SPEAKER_00 (16:59):
I did.
It was a happy mix.
So, like sometimes you go tosome downtowns and it's like
dirty and grungy and gross, orit's like Sixth Street in
Austin, where it's like, it'stoo many bars, people are just
out of control.
I never felt any of that in anycapacity.
Like, this was the most for anarea that has a lot of
restaurants and bars, this wasthe most family-friendly version

(17:22):
of that I've ever seen.

SPEAKER_03 (17:23):
True.

SPEAKER_00 (17:24):
Granted, it's still bars, there's still a lot of
live music, and I'm sure as theevening goes on, that it gets
rowdier.
Yes.
But that ain't our sceneanymore, so I can't tell you.

SPEAKER_02 (17:33):
And we only had, I would say, one or two
observations of um homelesspeople not behaving themselves.
One of them was while we werehaving dinner, like right
outside the window, but thepolice came and took care of
that.

SPEAKER_00 (17:46):
Oh, yeah.
And I was about to say, like,but even the little bit that was
happening, it got squashed, inmy opinion, from my point of
view, pretty quickly.
Now, it could have beenhappening down the street
further and I didn't see it, butexactly.

SPEAKER_02 (17:56):
And I mean, we've we've been in Austin and Dallas
and a lot of big downtowns,Houston and things.

SPEAKER_00 (18:02):
I I would put Nashville on par with like Fort
Worth as far as it was clean.
I mean, yes, there's homelesspeople, there always are.
There always it wasn't bad.
At no point did I ever like wishI had a something to protect
myself.
Never did I feel uncomfortablewith you being down there, that
kind of thing.
Just normal nervousness.
Um and so, but as far as likegetting into downtown, like

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there's dually's are not athing.
No, I mean they are obviously,but not not down there.

SPEAKER_01 (18:30):
Don't do that.

SPEAKER_00 (18:31):
The only you can park dualies down there, you are
going to pay through the nose.
Yes.
Keep in mind when I say thisnumber, this is during the week,
during the day.
And it was, I think the cheapestone I found was$90 a day.

SPEAKER_01 (18:45):
I think so.

SPEAKER_00 (18:46):
Because technically the dually is an oversized
vehicle, and so that was a ano-go for us.

SPEAKER_02 (18:52):
And just even watching like the traffic
patterns and some of the turnsand places you'd have to park.
Yeah, we just ubered.

SPEAKER_00 (18:59):
So there was a suggestion on some of the forums
that I looked that you couldpark over by Nissan Stadium,
which was home of the TennesseeTitans.
We never did this.
We got real close to trying oneday.

SPEAKER_03 (19:10):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (19:10):
And then you walk over, I forget the name of it,
the pedestrian bridge.
Yes.
But that's it's the famousbridge you see in all the
videos.

SPEAKER_02 (19:16):
But wasn't that like a mile to walk from the parking
lot?

SPEAKER_00 (19:19):
It was a it was just over, it was like a third of a
mile to get to downtown, butthen you still have to walk to
wherever you're going indowntown.
So it's situational.
So like for instance, to get tocenter of Broadway or Lower
Broadway, it was about a mile.

SPEAKER_02 (19:35):
Okay.

SPEAKER_00 (19:35):
And so, but both ways.
And if you've been eating, maybea few cocktails here and there,
margarito going back, the thereis less of the problem, the back
is a bigger problem.
And if there's an event at thestadium, uh-huh, your SOL.
Yeah.
If there's anything else goingon, and it's again free,
allegedly.
Allegedly.
And so typically what comes withfree is crime.

SPEAKER_02 (19:58):
Yep.

SPEAKER_00 (19:58):
And so, and uh because the cars are a little
bit more separated fromdowntown, I'm sure that there's
less patrols, less that kind ofstuff.
Whereas when you park in like adowntown garage, it's a garage.
I mean, they're not it's it'sdifficult for people to get in
and out of them without beingnoticed, kind of a thing.
So um we just elected to Uberslash lift, whatever was
cheapest, from Nashville shoresdown there.

(20:20):
Yeah, um, we ended up doing tworides, one there or two rides
total, like there and back as aride.
Um, and then obviously when wedid Grand Old Opry, we drove up
there because there's plenty ofparking there.
Exactly.
Um, but up just to give you anidea of proximity, Uber Lyft, it
took us about 30 to 45 minuteson Google Maps.

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Like Lauren said, it said 15 to20, depending on where you're
going in downtown.
Right.
Um, I believe it was actuallykind of similar for the Grand
Old Opry, but you had to go fromwhere we were quite a bit more
north.
And so similar, that's why wepicked it.
It was kind of happy medium.
Obviously, if you stay at the RVparks up um by Grand Old Opry,
you're right there.
You could, I don't know if youcan walk, but you can, it's it's

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very close.
Um, but your hike into downtownwould have been further.
It would have.
Um so Google Maps, I believe,had it at like 30 to 40 minutes.
So Lord only knows.

SPEAKER_02 (21:11):
And the KOA did not have jet skis and stand-up
paddle boards.
Or a water park.
Or a water park.

SPEAKER_00 (21:16):
Or an ice cream shop.
We didn't use that part of it.
We got we found other ice cream.
We found better ice cream.
So all right, so our anchors.
We talked about this in ourWisconsin Dells.
Our anchors are big things thatwe like to make sure we hit.
I know what mine were, but I'lllet you start and then I'll fill
with mine.

SPEAKER_02 (21:34):
So mine were definitely like the Ryman, the
Opry, and hot chicken.

SPEAKER_00 (21:39):
Yep.
Sorry, you threw me off there.
I was expecting Country MusicHall of Fame.
Um I got chicken.

SPEAKER_02 (21:46):
I actually wasn't that intrigued to go to the
Country Music Hall of Fame.

SPEAKER_00 (21:50):
I was intrigued, but well, we'll get into an
attraction.

SPEAKER_02 (21:54):
Chicken took a higher ranking as it normally
does.

SPEAKER_00 (21:57):
Sure.
Um, I would say we were heavierin attractions than we were in
food in Nashville.
Um I I don't know.
I'm not saying that in terms offood was necessarily bad in
Nashville.
No, some of the food we had wasgreat or just kind of it was
good, but you kind of look atthe price tag and go, eh.

SPEAKER_02 (22:15):
Yeah, it was a little expensive.
But I I would actually say thecontrary.
I think that a lot of the foodwe had was was pretty decent.

SPEAKER_00 (22:22):
Yeah, okay.
And I'm I'm taking some thingsnow because we RV, we don't eat
every meal out.
Obviously, if you fly in, stayin a hotel, you're kind of
stuck.
I'm not, you know, bringing ahot plate with me to make food.
Um, although now it's in herhead that she's gonna try and do
that.

SPEAKER_02 (22:35):
No, absolutely not.
Um we've already addressed that.
I don't cook.

SPEAKER_00 (22:38):
So we ate most breakfasts, minus one, um, at
the RV.

SPEAKER_02 (22:42):
Yep.

SPEAKER_00 (22:42):
We actually ate most lunches and I believe a couple
of dinners.
At least one dinner.

SPEAKER_02 (22:47):
At least one, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (22:48):
Um at the rig.
So we're obviously not going totalk about those.
Um, but with that, let's justdive right into the food.
And I want to start with thewith the one that was not the
biggest surprise by any means,but probably my favorite.

SPEAKER_02 (23:00):
Was it chicken?

SPEAKER_00 (23:01):
It was chicken.

SPEAKER_02 (23:02):
See, chicken was on the list, told you.

SPEAKER_00 (23:04):
So we're talking about Hattie Bees, hot chicken,
hot Nashville.
I forget what the actualterminology.
Hattie B's, which now I didn'tknow.
So the original is in Nashville.
The one that we ate at was thesecond one ever.
And now they're everywhere.

SPEAKER_02 (23:18):
There's even one here in Dallas.

SPEAKER_00 (23:19):
There is.
I popped up.
We were doing something inDallas, and I was looking for
somewhere to eat lunch and itpopped up.
I was like, oh.
But I was like, I feel like ithas the potential to ruin us,
though, because like can it beas good as the one in Nashville
kind of a thing?

SPEAKER_02 (23:31):
I still want to try it.

SPEAKER_00 (23:32):
Yeah, I do too.
I just, you're gonna have to getanother reason for me to go away
over there.

SPEAKER_02 (23:36):
So, yes, I thought it was great.
I really enjoyed it.
Now, I can also see that youmight like burn yourself out on
it.
And so it was nice to have everyonce in a while.

SPEAKER_00 (23:46):
I was gonna say the sides were all good.
They had some of the littlethings, but at the end of the
day, I'd rather you do one thingincredibly well with a couple of
good things than do like 40things just kind of okay.

SPEAKER_02 (23:56):
And in my opinion, they did two things well.
One, the chicken, but two, thatwaffle.

SPEAKER_00 (24:00):
Okay, but it's not just focus on the chicken for a
minute.
I guess I don't know that.
We're adding a waffle in withthe sides because it's not an
entree.
It's like an appetizer orstarter or whatever you want to
call it.
So, but the chicken itself,crunchy, juicy, across the
board.

SPEAKER_02 (24:13):
Good flavor.

SPEAKER_00 (24:14):
Um, the the chicken itself, if you didn't put a
sauce on it, it's just got avery mild spice to it.

SPEAKER_02 (24:20):
It was very nice.

SPEAKER_00 (24:21):
Yeah.
Where you can get in trouble isthat spa level.

SPEAKER_02 (24:25):
Ask him how he knows.

SPEAKER_00 (24:26):
The hot sauce.
Mine was the right amount forme.
I would argue just a scooch onthe spicy side, but considering
what I was having, I was goodwith it.

SPEAKER_02 (24:33):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (24:34):
And I got medium.

SPEAKER_02 (24:35):
I was gonna say, and that was that was kind of
planned that you still wanted toenjoy it.

SPEAKER_00 (24:40):
So I I have a theory that I mean, if I want to eat
something spicy for the hay darnheck of it, give me one bite.
Right.
And it's like I can do this,gunk and then like hot ones,
kind of a thing.
Like, I did it.
I'm sweating and drooling, andI've dumped milk all down my
face.
But yeah.
So I believe that you can bespicy, but you have to have
flavor still.
And so spicy for spicy sake isjust annoying.

(25:02):
Spicy for flavor, bueno, as longas this again doesn't cross that
line.
So medium was the right amountfor me.
You did mild, I think.

SPEAKER_02 (25:09):
I did, and I really enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_00 (25:11):
Yeah, mild was a good one.
They almost had two differentmenus of it, too.
It was interesting because itwas separated.

SPEAKER_03 (25:15):
Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (25:16):
Because they had um in one little three section,
they had uh mild, medium, andhot.
And then they like skipped somestuff, had another box, and then
it was extra hot, flaming hot,and something ridiculous, like
inferno or just again.

SPEAKER_02 (25:32):
I I title that as bad decisions.

SPEAKER_00 (25:34):
Yeah, so I what I told in my head and what we said
in the video was that firstthree is the reasonable everyday
doers.
I know that I don't have thehighest spice tolerance, so
there's people that may likehot.
Um, medium was right for me.
If I wasn't in the mood forspicy, I would do mild because I
didn't find mild very spicy.

SPEAKER_02 (25:51):
No.

SPEAKER_00 (25:51):
Um, but if I wanted it to be spicy, I'd go medium.
Hot would probably be too muchfor me.

SPEAKER_02 (25:56):
I would have called it flavorful, the mild.

SPEAKER_00 (25:58):
I agree.
Um, the other one, novelty.
Exactly here on.
I want flames coming out my youknow what.

SPEAKER_02 (26:06):
Now, you said that you don't have much spice
tolerance, but I'm gonna spicetolerance.
I'm gonna throw a little caveatthat I think you do compared to
the average population.
So kind of take what we'resaying with that grain of salt.

SPEAKER_00 (26:16):
Well, and that's why I tried to phrase it, not that
spice tolerance, like for hot.
Like hot is just a little overthe line.
Could I eat it?
Probably would I enjoy it?
Not as much as mild.
No.
Or uh uh medium, sorry.
So the sides were all prettysolid.
I'm not gonna lie.
My biggest disappointment waskind of like, I mean, there's
sides, it's kind of likebarbecue places.
Like you don't, I mean, if youfind a barbecue place that has

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amazing meats and amazing sides,you've hit the jackpot.

SPEAKER_01 (26:41):
Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 (26:41):
Most barbecue places, the sides are just kind
of okay.
They're not the star of theshow, they're accompanying cast.

SPEAKER_02 (26:47):
I'd take it or leave it on the sides.

SPEAKER_00 (26:48):
Yeah, the the mac and cheese was okay.
It was probably the least thing,but mac and cheese hard to get
right when you cook it in bigquantities.
Yep.
Because it gets that weirdcongealed, squishy version, and
that's what it was.
Um, there was, what were thegrits?

SPEAKER_03 (27:02):
I don't remember.

SPEAKER_00 (27:03):
It was like a corn grit or something like that.
That was really good, in myopinion.
So, I mean, it didn't, and itdidn't outsign the chicken,
which is the important part, butthere's Lauren's favorite, the
waffle.
And I will say it it is not likea Belgian waffle.

SPEAKER_02 (27:16):
No.

SPEAKER_00 (27:16):
It's like a little handheld, and for those of you
listening, think like a dollarsize pancake or a yeah, maybe a
forget the mess the size.
You we're not, it's not verybig.
We're talking maybe three orfour inch diameter, ish, give or
take.
So it comes with two, and it ismore of like a it's not like a
stroop waffle, but it'ssomewhere between like an
American Belgian waffle and astroop waffle.

SPEAKER_02 (27:38):
It's kind of sweet, kind of.
Oh, it's very sweet.

SPEAKER_00 (27:40):
Not kind of sweet, it's sweet.

SPEAKER_02 (27:43):
It was perfect to combat like the spice and flavor
of the chicken.
So it had a little bit of sweet,a little bit of heat.

SPEAKER_00 (27:48):
But it is, it's got a little bit of a crunch to it
because there's almost like a umlike a sugary coating to it.
Um, but it was it was very good.
But it is on the fluffier sidelike a Belgian waffle, but it is
stroop waffles are a littlecrunchier and thinner.
Um, but it is like that whereit's got the same crunch on the
outside.
So I would go back to HattieBees in a freaking hardbeat.

SPEAKER_02 (28:06):
I would too.

SPEAKER_00 (28:07):
The one in Dallas you're still gonna have to work
on me for.

SPEAKER_02 (28:10):
That's fine.
I'll go.
You stay.

SPEAKER_00 (28:12):
Okay.
Um, other food-wise, and this iswhere it kind of gets all over
the place because this was alsovery much so a vacation first
for us.
So we kind of just chilled andand and laid back and did some
things.
So um, our very first nightthere, we got takeout from a
takeout on only Italian place.

SPEAKER_02 (28:28):
That was right up the road in a little shopping
center.
You could have blinked andmissed it.
Yeah, you can't even eat in therestaurant.

SPEAKER_00 (28:35):
It is one of those situations where if you drove
past it, you'd probably look atit and go, no.

SPEAKER_02 (28:39):
Yeah, completely.
But I think it was called Tutadi Gio.
Yeah, something like that.
De Gio.

SPEAKER_00 (28:44):
Something very Italian in that ballpark.

SPEAKER_02 (28:46):
Uh-huh.
And it was delicious.

SPEAKER_00 (28:48):
That's some of the best Italian food I've ever had.

SPEAKER_02 (28:50):
Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 (28:50):
And we're kind of connoisseurs of pasta.

SPEAKER_02 (28:53):
Of the carbs.

SPEAKER_00 (28:54):
Um, yeah, of all the carbs.
Yeah, they had like the friedrisotto balls.
Yeah, you got the piancini.

SPEAKER_02 (28:59):
Didn't you get gnocchi?

SPEAKER_00 (29:00):
We got we got a couple of dishes in shared.

SPEAKER_02 (29:02):
Oh, that's right.
Okay.

SPEAKER_00 (29:03):
And so I think we I think we got a pizza, which was
phenomenal.
No, sorry.
Um, we got like a gnocchi inlike a cream sauce or something
like that.
That was really good.
It was like a garlic creamsauce, and then we got the the
arancini.

SPEAKER_02 (29:16):
And you guys can slaughter us later for all the
bad pronunciation, but that'sokay.
It was delicious.

SPEAKER_00 (29:21):
Just go eat it.
You'll pronounce it however youwant to.

SPEAKER_02 (29:23):
We also took, or did you have anything else on that
one?
Go for it.
We also tried Bakersfield tacos.
They had gotten some really goodreviews.

SPEAKER_00 (29:29):
This is downtown.

SPEAKER_02 (29:30):
This is back in town, or back in downtown.
Um, and I would call it morelike upscale kind of tacos and
different flavors.

SPEAKER_00 (29:38):
Dump tacos into three different categories.
You got fancy pants tacos,Bakersfield qualifies.

SPEAKER_02 (29:44):
Bakersfield qualifies.

SPEAKER_00 (29:45):
You got like taco truck, actually good, really
like Mexican street tacos,tacos, which fancy tacos try to
be, but they're fancier meatsand stuff.
And then you got white peopletacos.
That's what we make at home,kind of a thing.
It's just ground beef and cheeseand lettuce and tomato.
That's fine.
And we don't even do the letter.
We just do ground beef andcheese.

SPEAKER_02 (30:02):
Gotta be a flour tortilla.
So yes.
Um it was a little, littleexpensive, I would say.

SPEAKER_00 (30:07):
It's on the pricier side.

SPEAKER_02 (30:08):
Um and the flavors just weren't to our profiles as
much, maybe?

SPEAKER_00 (30:12):
Uh so we you can order like you can get, I think
we did like a family thing whereyou get like six or eight tacos
or something like that.
Yeah, different flavors.
And they're small, they're notlike they're little street
tacos.
So think like corn tortilla,again, almost the size of the
waffle.
Um, so not huge.
Uh for me, they were like threeto four bites a piece.
I think there are probably justa few more for you because you

(30:32):
know big guy over here goesfaster and harder.

SPEAKER_03 (30:35):
Okay.

SPEAKER_00 (30:36):
Um, and I remember getting the pork was the best
one, in my opinion.

SPEAKER_02 (30:40):
But I don't need pork, so I was out of luck.

SPEAKER_00 (30:42):
And I tried El Pastor.
I just I don't like the sweet.

SPEAKER_02 (30:46):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (30:46):
And that's sweeter because of the pineapple and
everything, and it's just not mycup.
But I love pineapple, but byitself, not on other stuff.

SPEAKER_02 (30:52):
The chicken was okay.
Dry.
Yeah, it was dry.
And then I tried a fish taco,which didn't have as much flavor
as I would have liked.
Yeah, surprisingly.

SPEAKER_00 (31:01):
I would say across the board the flavor was just
kind of okay.
They weren't, it wasn't bad byany means.

SPEAKER_02 (31:06):
No.

SPEAKER_00 (31:06):
But for the dollar amount spending in our fl in our
palate, it just wasn'tnecessarily our cup of tea.
The restaurant itself was kindof a cool vibe.

SPEAKER_01 (31:13):
Yeah, it was.

SPEAKER_00 (31:14):
Um, we were right at the beginning or the entrance of
it, so we didn't get to see asmuch of it.
Um, we also went a little on theearlier side, apparently, and
they were maybe still kind ofgetting up and going.

SPEAKER_02 (31:23):
It sure seemed like that.
Um a little word to the wise.
We were also going to get amargarita.

SPEAKER_00 (31:29):
And oh, yeah, I forgot about this.

SPEAKER_02 (31:32):
Dear goodness.
Um, and so when you price itout, like if each of us got one
or two margaritas, it wasactually cheaper to do the
pitcher.

SPEAKER_00 (31:39):
If we both got two, as it commonly is.
I think it was one of thosewhere if we bought three
margaritas, you might as wellbuy the pitcher.

SPEAKER_02 (31:45):
Exactly.
So we were like, well, thenwe'll just do the pitcher.

SPEAKER_00 (31:48):
Oops.
Oops.
Apparently that's for like 12people.

SPEAKER_02 (31:51):
That that's a big pitcher.

SPEAKER_00 (31:53):
That was a I think we both ended up having like
four margaritas.
I think the cups were smallerthan what the ones came in.

SPEAKER_02 (31:59):
I do, but our cups I I don't think had as much ice in
them either.
I agree.
And so, yes, I think we eachended up drinking four
margaritas out of the pitcher.
So just remember that, y'all.
Drive safe.

SPEAKER_00 (32:12):
Well, kind of say they weren't the weakest
margaritas we've ever had.
They weren't the strongest, butthey definitely weren't the
weakest.

SPEAKER_02 (32:18):
No, and especially four later.
We were we were all right.

SPEAKER_00 (32:20):
By the time we were done with that, we were pretty
much done.
I think we went, we were gonna,we were talking about doing a
few other things, and afterthat, we kind of threw in the
towel for the day and said, youknow what, let's just find some
ice cream and go home.

SPEAKER_02 (32:31):
And don't you dare come at me with your logic that
we didn't have to finish thepitcher.

SPEAKER_00 (32:36):
That's just throwing there.
Wasteful.
Yeah, I don't actually theyprobably couldn't have because
underage, but um and then rightfrom there, well, stay on
regular food, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 (32:47):
Um I think that was all the regular food.

SPEAKER_00 (32:49):
I think that actually was all the regular
food.
We didn't, again, we ate in therig quite a bit on this trip
because that was the relaxingsection of the trip.
And so we did hang out therequite a bit.

SPEAKER_02 (32:58):
We did two other kinds of things, not regular
food.
We did five daughters bakery.
Yep.

SPEAKER_00 (33:04):
So this was breakfast on your breakfast.
Breakfast used that termincredibly loosely.
Incredibly more like diabetescoma land.

SPEAKER_02 (33:11):
And I regret nothing.

SPEAKER_00 (33:13):
I regret some things.

SPEAKER_02 (33:15):
It was good.
It was very good.
I really liked it.

SPEAKER_00 (33:17):
It was very good.
I'm just saying, like my foottingled for a week after that.

SPEAKER_02 (33:20):
Um, the cough, they had coffee, that was good.
You had something savory, likeso.

SPEAKER_00 (33:26):
I can't do if I do too many sweets in the morning,
I get an upset stomach.
I know, shocking.
Oh, in the evening, all daylong, or whatever.
But I need to eat something, andso I got like a sausage biscuit
to this day.
Yeah, probably the best biscuitI've ever had.

SPEAKER_02 (33:39):
Right.

SPEAKER_00 (33:39):
Now, the sausage biscuit was phenomenal too, but
I would argue I could just eatin three of those biscuits by
themselves.

SPEAKER_01 (33:44):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (33:45):
So it was really good.
Their big famous thing is thehundred-layer donut, which is
fancy for Cronut.
That's right.
Same idea.
I think the pastry's a littledifferent, so I don't want to
call it that, but same kind ofconcept.
The good thing for us and andand our doctors is that they had
minis that you could do likesamplers of.
But there was one that I wanted,I think it was that maple bacon

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or maple, whatever, that theydidn't have any minis or they
didn't have any left, one of thetwo.
So we ended up with I got thesausage, uh-huh, egg and cheese,
bag, or not bagel, biscuit.
Yeah.
We both got a coffee, and thenwe ended up with like I think
six.
Was it six mini donuts that weeach had a half of?

SPEAKER_03 (34:23):
Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 (34:23):
Um, and then one of the big ass, sorry, one of the
big this thing was a honker.
I mean, these things are thesethings were bigger than the dang
waffles.
That's true.
They were.
So maybe if you stack the waffleon top of each other and then
pulled them apart a little bit.
Um, but very, very, very good.
Very, very, very sweet.
Yes.
So if you're not in the supersweet stuff, not your cup of

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tea.

SPEAKER_02 (34:44):
I thought they were great.

SPEAKER_00 (34:45):
I would go back.
I would I I would absolutely goback to just maybe a little less
or spread them out, one of thetwo.
Or do it exactly the same wayyou did based on that face.
So um, what was the other place?

SPEAKER_02 (34:55):
All right.
So the last one that I canrecall is the ice cream place.
Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (35:00):
The tipsy scoop.

SPEAKER_02 (35:02):
It's booze-infused ice cream.

SPEAKER_00 (35:03):
I'm not sure how we found that.

SPEAKER_02 (35:04):
I did.

SPEAKER_00 (35:05):
Okay.
So this was after Bakersfield.
We were just kind of one, wewanted to walk around because we
were full.

SPEAKER_02 (35:10):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (35:10):
Um, and trying to wear off the margaritas.

SPEAKER_02 (35:13):
So this was also, again, my birthday.
So we did the tacos and the icecream because ice cream is my
favorite food group.
And when I saw that they hadbooze infused, I was like, well,
I mean, why not?
It's my birthday.

SPEAKER_00 (35:24):
And I know what you're saying, like, oh, it just
has the flavor of it.
Nope.
Like straight up, you have to be21 up.
And it's surprisingly, you don'ttaste much of it.

SPEAKER_02 (35:32):
Nope, you sure don't.

SPEAKER_00 (35:33):
But I sure heck did feel it.
Well, it didn't help that thegallon of margaritas that was
sitting in my stomach.

SPEAKER_02 (35:40):
So for reference, we each got a serving of whatever
flavor we wanted.
And then we purchased four pintsto leave with.

SPEAKER_00 (35:48):
Okay.

SPEAKER_02 (35:48):
We bought enough to get a bag.

SPEAKER_00 (35:50):
We we each we got a complimentary gift bag for a
purchase of$100 or more.
Um, in all fairness, one pintfor me, one pint for you, and
then you gave two away.

SPEAKER_01 (36:01):
I did.

SPEAKER_00 (36:02):
And your pint is still in the fridge.

SPEAKER_02 (36:06):
I'm so proud of you for not having touched it yet.

SPEAKER_00 (36:08):
Um, but it's it's very it has been in jeopardy for
weeks.

SPEAKER_02 (36:13):
Okay.
There was that little thingcalled my surgery where I
couldn't.

SPEAKER_00 (36:15):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 (36:17):
So we're gonna give like six weeks to that.
Because that was big.

SPEAKER_00 (36:22):
So at seven weeks, it's all mine.

SPEAKER_02 (36:24):
Anyways.

SPEAKER_00 (36:25):
Um when I get back from the next trip, it's mine if
it's not gone.

SPEAKER_02 (36:29):
Um just gonna hide it, I'll never find it.

SPEAKER_00 (36:32):
That was all of the food.
There is more that we didn't do,obviously.
Obviously.
I will say all of the bigcountry stars have a place down
there now.
Yeah, yeah.
Jason Aldean has a place, BlakeShelton.
I will, full warning, they don'tactually have the it's their
name, but those companies buynaming rights and make a
restaurant.
Some of them are involved withthem, some of them are less
involved with them.

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Couldn't tell you who did whatand what didn't work.

SPEAKER_02 (36:54):
Not really my cup of tea necessarily.

SPEAKER_00 (36:56):
No, if you just want like some traditional like
American, then yeah, I go forit.
It's fine.
We we actually ate at JasonAldean's place in Gatlinburg.
Right.
And it wasn't it was good, yeah.
It wasn't bad by any means, butit wasn't very like mom and
poppy.
It it felt like a chain, eventhough it's I mean what is, but
but I mean, like even theone-offs still kind of feel like

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chains because at the end of theday, chain restaurants own them.
So and I'm adjusting.

SPEAKER_01 (37:21):
Okay.

SPEAKER_00 (37:22):
Um as far as uh attractions, yes, mm-hmm.
We did the Ryman Auditorium, wedid, we did the Opry House, the
Oprihous.
Don't want those nasty gramsagain.

SPEAKER_01 (37:36):
Uh-uh.

SPEAKER_00 (37:36):
Um, and then we also did the Country Music Hall
Museum and Hall of Fame.

SPEAKER_01 (37:40):
Yes.

SPEAKER_00 (37:42):
Um, I'm going to go from least favorite to favorite.

SPEAKER_01 (37:45):
Okay.

SPEAKER_00 (37:46):
And so we can move past it.
The Country Music Hall of Fame.
It's fine.

SPEAKER_02 (37:50):
It was my least favorite too.

SPEAKER_00 (37:52):
It was my least favorite thing we did the entire
trip.

SPEAKER_02 (37:54):
Yep.

SPEAKER_00 (37:54):
And somehow it was also one of the more expensive
ones.

SPEAKER_02 (37:57):
The tacos were better.

SPEAKER_00 (37:58):
That like because there was tacos.

SPEAKER_02 (38:02):
Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 (38:02):
If they had had tacos, then who knows?
There were margaritas.
It's so, and I I understand it'sa museum, yeah, but it's a hall
of fame and museum.
So the hall of fame isrealistically just the ring of
honor, the circle, uh, in inthe, I forget what they call it.
I'm gonna call it an atrium.
I know that's not right, but thebig circle room.

SPEAKER_03 (38:19):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (38:19):
Um, rotunda.
There it is.
Um, and it's got all the thepeople that have been inducted.
It's apparently more exclusivethan I thought it was.
Um, there are less people upthere.
I thought there'd be a lot more.

SPEAKER_01 (38:30):
I thought so too.

SPEAKER_00 (38:31):
Um, one of the coolest things is in the lobby,
and it's free.
You can walk in and it has awall of a lot of number one
albums.

SPEAKER_01 (38:39):
Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (38:40):
So in that building, every number one album dating
back to like the 30s is in aplaque somewhere in that
building.
Now, I don't know where they allare, but this wall is the
biggest combination of all themin one spot, and it's huge.
I mean, it's three, four storiestall.
Um so uh would I spend the moneyon again?
Absolutely not.

SPEAKER_03 (38:58):
Nope.

SPEAKER_00 (38:59):
Um, so then I would go from there to the Opry House.
Agreed.
And I like this, don't take thatwrong.
It is a produced thing, likethey've they've which isn't a
bad thing because you when youfirst get there, you sit down in
like a little theater kind ofthing, and there's a what'd you
call it five to eight minutelong presentation?
But it's it's like a stage showwith projection mapping and all

(39:20):
that stuff.
Feels like Disney Imagineerscame in and did their thing.

SPEAKER_01 (39:23):
Sure.

SPEAKER_00 (39:24):
Um, which isn't bad.
Yeah, and Garth Brooks hostedit, and there was a bunch of
other people in it, and so itwas good.
I it it gave you the theknowledge base you needed before
you went into the thing and wentbackstage.
Sure.
I think you had it spot on whenyou said it's cool, but I would
almost come to a show and thenthey do a thing where you come
back and do the backstage tourafter the show.

SPEAKER_02 (39:44):
Yes.

SPEAKER_00 (39:45):
That sounds like more fun than we did.

SPEAKER_02 (39:47):
That's past our bedtime.

SPEAKER_00 (39:49):
Most things are past our bedtime.

SPEAKER_02 (39:51):
But no, if I were going to do it, that's the way
that I would do it.
I think that you get a lot morefeel.

SPEAKER_00 (39:56):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 (39:57):
Um, like seeing the Opry House is one thing, but I
think seeing the Opry would havebeen so different.

SPEAKER_00 (40:03):
Yeah, and I think that that's we'll get to that in
our wrap-up here in just asecond.
But um, you do get to go now,you don't get to go on stage for
that one.
We did get to go on stagebecause they were happened to be
okay.
And literally, what was it,three weeks later is when they
were doing the Opry 100celebration.
So that was kind of cool to lookback and go, oh, that's fun.
I mean, we were just we stoodthere, we you know right, and

(40:23):
they let us stand in the circle,which as much as everybody makes
a big deal of the circle, I'mreally surprised they let
everybody stand on the circle.

SPEAKER_02 (40:29):
I was too.
I didn't understand.

SPEAKER_00 (40:31):
I almost didn't because it felt wrong.
And I know you probably if youdon't know what I'm talking
about, research the Ryman stageat the Grand Old Opry Circle.
Yeah.
Um, but then I'm gonna leave itoff with the my favorite, and I
think it's your favorite too.
There, and we got a littlespoiled because of this one, um,
was the Ryman Auditorium.

SPEAKER_01 (40:49):
That was neat.

SPEAKER_00 (40:50):
Yeah, so it's by far a much more historical place.
Um, it was built in 50s.
Oh, I don't remember.
It was built as a tabernacleoriginally because Ryman, the
dude Ryman, was a the dude.
Um it's not Jeff Bridges.
Um he he had a um uh what werethe boats back then with the big

(41:15):
paddle wheel?
Like a casino paddle wheel boatthat was on the Mississippi or
whatever rivers there.
And he would run gambling stuffdown there.
Well, then he went to thisrevival, got saved, became very
religious, and then he builtthis tabernacle for that pastor,
and so he preached there, theymusic, that kind of stuff.
Um, and then it just kind ofstuck around.

(41:36):
Um, the Grand Old Opry was thereuntil the 70s.

SPEAKER_02 (41:42):
We should have studied more.

SPEAKER_00 (41:44):
Yeah, probably the Grand Old Opry had a stent
there, but the Grand Old Opry atthe time was kind of bouncing
around, and then they were therefor like 25 or 30 years.

SPEAKER_02 (41:51):
It wasn't big enough anymore, they needed more space.

SPEAKER_00 (41:53):
Yeah, so the Grand Old Opry had outgrown it.
They built the Opry House, whichis what we just talked about a
second ago, yeah.
Um, which is the home of theGrand Old Opry.
That circle that we talk aboutin the stage was cut out from
the Ryman stage apparentlymultiple times.

SPEAKER_02 (42:07):
Apparently multiple times because it kept flying.

SPEAKER_00 (42:09):
And it's from the original stage, but even they
said, like, we there's not thatwood is I mean, wood goes bad.
So like there's a section of itthat's still original, but
that's it.
Um it's its nickname is theMother Church of Country Music.
It's one of those rare venuesthat the acoustics in the room
are just insane, kind of athing.

SPEAKER_02 (42:26):
Crazy cool.

SPEAKER_00 (42:27):
You got the stained glass on the back wall, and
that's actually windows.

SPEAKER_02 (42:30):
I feel like you can like feel the history if that
makes any sense.
It's not commercialized, it'snot in that same way.
Like feel how historic andimportant it was.

SPEAKER_00 (42:40):
I would argue the museum pieces they had there
made more sense than what thecountry music hall of fame and
museum had.

SPEAKER_02 (42:48):
I agree.

SPEAKER_00 (42:48):
Now, granted, there was a lot less of them.

SPEAKER_02 (42:50):
Yeah, and I think that was the one where we also
really lucked out that our puredumb luck tour guide.
Um, it was just us on the tour.

SPEAKER_00 (42:57):
We we paid for a backstage group tour and just
being us in our tour guide.
He's like, Okay, private tour.

SPEAKER_02 (43:03):
There was this huge group that went in the one ahead
of us, and then when we gotthere, he was like, Anymore in
your party?
We were like, Nope.
So here we go.
Hello.

SPEAKER_00 (43:13):
So which was fun because then we it was way more
of just a conversation.
It was.
And we literally, because yousometimes you get in those big
groups and you're like, I'm notgonna ask the question.
No, like I don't want to be theguy that keeps us here, and
that's what it felt like when wedid the Grand Old Opry tour.
I probably could have, or theOpry House, sorry, whatever,
same thing.

SPEAKER_02 (43:29):
No, it's not the same thing.

SPEAKER_00 (43:31):
But yeah, I agree with you that it was that made
the tour.
We got to hang out on the stagea little bit more and ask
questions.
Because of my live event stuff,I got a little nerdy with some
of the A V equipment and stuffthey used.
So I started asking about thatand tying into the older
building, but and we got alittle bit more time in some of
these spots because normallythey have to rotate people in
and out and where we got to justkind of hang out and sit on,

(43:54):
well, not sit on, but see theplace where um June and Johnny
Cash met and just that kind ofstuff.
And so that was really cool tome.

SPEAKER_02 (44:03):
So it was.
Well, and I also feel likebecause there weren't as many
questions, he was able to tellmore stories.
So it was just a neatexperience.

SPEAKER_00 (44:11):
Like the people that have been kicked out, yeah.
And not ever allowed back, thatkind of a thing.
So all right.
Well, um what are your big biglike okay, you gotta know this
before you go to Nashville ormake sure and check this out.

SPEAKER_02 (44:28):
So I would definitely do the Ryman, and I
would do the Opry House, but Iwould do a show at the Opry
House and just the tour at theRyman.
Um if you are going to do a showat the Ryman.
You would.
I mean, I would, but I enjoyedthe tour just as well, it seems.
But um, if you're going with afamily, then maybe consider
staying at one of the RV parks.
If you're just going as acouple, probably just get a

(44:48):
hotel room and stay downtown.

SPEAKER_00 (44:50):
I think it depends on what you're doing.
If you're full timing, thenobviously just take the
information.

SPEAKER_02 (44:53):
Sure, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (44:54):
If you're like for us, we talked about like I'm
glad we RV'd it, but the nexttime we go, because I figured we
will at some point, I thinkwe're gonna time it along a show
we want to see.

SPEAKER_03 (45:03):
Yes.

SPEAKER_00 (45:03):
Which means we'll probably, knowing us, drive in
and then just stay at one of thehotels downtown somewhere, like
have all the next day, go to theshow, sleep in the next day, and
then kind of go from there.
So a couple of nights max kindof a thing.

SPEAKER_02 (45:17):
And then get you some Hattie Bees, hot chicken,
and do go to Five Daughters.
Get you some Cronuts.

SPEAKER_00 (45:22):
There, and there's more than one.
The original one's downtown, butthere are more than one.
We went to the one that was upby the Grand Old Opry.
It was maybe five, 10 minutesfrom there.
So it's close to those northernRV parks.

SPEAKER_03 (45:32):
Right.

SPEAKER_00 (45:33):
Um, and there is one at an area called Fifth and
Broadway, it's where the HattieBees also is.
It's like a shopping littleloop.
It's actually right by the Rymanas well.
They're all kind of right theretogether.

SPEAKER_02 (45:42):
So get all of our favorites right there one day.

SPEAKER_00 (45:44):
Yep.
Get your you get you some LukeCasey boots, uh oh no, some
Wrangler jeans.
They had all these stores righthere.
Oh, they did.
So it was it was just like fancycountry western apparel, that
kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_02 (45:54):
I just meant the the Cronuts and then the hot chicken
and then the ryman.
Those are our favorites.
Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 (45:59):
We guess we only had to stay within like a block and
a half of everything.
So all right.
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