Amarillo, TX

 We stayed at the Big Texan RV Ranch, so had to have dinner at the Big Texan Steak Ranch & Brewery.

The next day was spent at the RV, doing laundry and relaxing.

Bardstown and Hodgenville, KY

We wanted to go to a Bourbon distillary while in Kentucky, however, we would've needed to make advance reservations since all tours were limited to 6 people only.  So instead we found a whisky museum.

 After the museum, we drove to Hodgenville and went to Abraham Lincoln's birthplace. The memorial had 56 steps up to the top and a replica of the log cabin where Lincoln was born inside.

Memphis, TN

We celebrated Bob and Sharon's 61st wedding anniversary at Folk's Folley, an upscale restaurant in Memphis, Nanette and her husband Kenny, and Barbra with her husband.  .  

 While in Memphis, Bob and Sharon spent the day with Ninette and Graham and I went to the Pink Palace Museum.  The main feature of this museum was the story of the Piggly Wiggly grocery store and the man, Charles Saunders, who innovated grocery store shopping as we know it today. It also had other eclectic items on display.

Groceries were stacked in aisles and you could put the items you wanted into a basket and then check out at the end.

Other interesting things:

World War I art made from shell casings.

Doctor's office, turn of the century.

Dentist office turn of the century.

Nashville, TN

We arrived to early to see any real shows, however, we did go to Nashville Nightlife, where we had a buffet style dinner and heard some country music.  It was an offbeat place and most people who were there were probably over 60, laugh out loud!   

We went to the Belle Meade Plantation:

Children's dollhouse

Kitchen

Slave's quarters

Dairy, a main source of income

Owner's original cabin before Belle Meade was built.

Since we still had some time left in the day, we went to the Parthenon, a full size replica.  Nashville is often referred to as the Athens of Tennessee.

The shield is 58' in diameter.

Elizabethtown, KY

 On this two day stop, we found a Elizabethtown Nature Park with this lovely veteran's memorial.  It was interesting that they had a statue dedicated to the, often forgotten, Civil Service workers who support our deployed troups.  

Some of the RV's were decked out for Halloween.