Our USA Adventure – Week 10
Our USA Adventure – Week 10: Bristol (VA/TN), Crossville, Nashville
This week we traveled from the Blue Ridge Parkway area around Floyd, VA to Nashville, Tennessee. On the way we had nice stops at Bristol, where the border dividing Virgina and Tennessee runs down the middle of State Street, and Crossville where we stayed at a fairly rustic but lovely park called the Davey Crockett RV Park. Bristol is known as the Birthplace of Country Music so of course we had to visit the Country Music Museum – a fascinating place we would love to return to. Music has played a big role in our country’s history and this museum documents that history relative to the ealiest beginning of country music up to the present. It was nice to get that history prior to visiting the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, where the past and present of country music come together in a fabulous collage of pictures, sound, and words!
Next Up: Follow us along the Natchez Trace. Want some background? Here you go: https://www.nps.gov/natr/index.htm
Bristol/SugarHollow: Pat’s new buddy, Gabrielle
Gabe wanted to stay with us and play with Lili but his family was just leaving.
Bristol Sugar Hollow Kids
Pat’s a big kid!
Bristol Sugar Hollow Campground
Campground at night
Country Music Museum
Bristol, the Birthplace of Country Music. Great museum!
CM Museum: Bristol
Pat left our names on the Board!
Bristol State Street
Virginia on the left, Tennessee on the right!
Bristol State Street 2
Virginia on the right, Tennessee on the left!
CM Museum Early Sound
The museum had many examples of the progress of music recording!
Bristol Sugar Hollow Path
Path ran through this wetlands, where turtles could be seen in the algea.
CM Museum – Document
How modernization has affected Appalchia
CM Museum Document 2
Exploring the words of CM and what they reflect…
CM Museum
Selfie in the foyer of the Museum
CM Museum – Bike Art
Local artists on display at the Museum.
CM Museum – Bike Art 2
More local artist – clocks from Bike Parts
Davey Crockett RV Park
Site with Deck
Lili gets sun protection
Lili loves traveling in Pat’s lap, but the sun get in her eyes!
Before the Opry
Folks were always volunteering to take our photo!
Before the Opry 2
Beautiful Bus restaurant!
Opry Backstage Tour 1
Great tour of backstage areas, including dressing rooms and stages!
Backstage Tour 3
Pat in “Green Room” aka, “Family Room” where performers get together and gab before going onstage.
Backstage Tour 4
Pics of the members of the Opry along the walls.
Backstage Tour 5
Empty Auditorium – not for long!
Opry performance
Packed on a Tuesday night
Opry performance 2
Father-son CM performers
Opry performance 3
Oakridge Boys and Gatlin Bros perform together
Opry performance 5
Carrie Underwood – great but short performance!
Lunch at Ole Red
Blake Shelton’s restaurant featured singer/songwriter Molly Stevens, just terrific!!
Meet the Burkes...
We are “The Burkes”, Pat and Gary, and this is our Travel Blog where we hope to share in pictures and words the highlights of our journeys. We are semi-retired, meaning we both work remotely with phones and computers as we travel around in our 27′ Airstream International, which we have named “Close2You II”. Those who know us may remember our sailboat, a 26′ MacGregor named “Close To You”, and therefore…Read More
Hi, Gary, i’ve been enjoying your blog postings.
Great job!.
I especially love your photos!
Let’s get together sometime on zoom if you like .
Hi Jim! I’ve been thinking about you lately, wondering how you’re doing and wanting some help with categories. Thanks for touching bases here! We’re currently in Slidell, Louisianna but leaving tomorrow, so the next opportunity will be a few days when we get to Zavalla. Pretty sure they have WiFi there. I’ll keep in touch and let you know. How are things there? Getting ready to post the latest two weeks today, BTW.