Going to Nashville

[lblanchard]

I am getting on an airplane next Wednesday. Bleah. I'd almost rather have a tooth pulled.

We'll spend five days exploring the city to see if it's a good fit for us. If it passes muster on first visit, we'll go back and poke around some more.

I've done no traveling to speak of for three years. I do not enjoy travel. When we get there I should be all right, though. Time to make lists.

I keep trying to research the city and the metro and constantly gravitate back to the transit agency website. They have a city loop you can ride for free! A reduced-fare unlimited monthly pass for seniors is $44. But not free...

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[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

VERY high heat + humidity. It is a city we've visited often because of a dear friend who lives there and there are some really lovely places and historical bits to visit. Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Art Museum would catch your fancy. Visit that if you can. Also Belle Meade, The Hermitage and Belmont Mansion. But LIVE there? No way, nohow! And yes, culture shock may well set in quickly.
How about some line dancing and barbecue?

The travel bit will be just fine.

Icon is a Belmont Mansion lion from a picture I took a few years ago.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Heh. That looks a lot like the dying lion of Lucerne.

I know it's hot and humid. Philadelphia's pretty hot and humid, too, especially our part of the city. In fact, I've been tracking the weather comparatively and we appear to be less than five degrees apart on the weather pattens. We'll leave here in the low 70s if the forecast holds and get there in the mid 70s.

Portions of Philadelphia are in the coastal plane and portions are on the piedmont. There's a climate zone change in the city and we're on the warmer end. Add to that the fact that we live in a section that has a) virtually no tree cover; and b) an explosion of gentrification / redevelopment that has replaced vacant lots with houses that have big honking central air compressors. It's usually two to three degrees hotter here than in Center City half a mile north of us, and five to seven degrees hotter than neighborhoods north and west of Center City.

I'm not a great fan of country music, but I suspect that between Frist/Cheekwood and some other offerings I might be perfectly happy there. There's a light installation at Cheekwood that I'm eager to see. We have tickets for the night of the Equinox.

http://lightatcheekwood.com/

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

All I know is that I grew up in Michigan and though that was the worst humidity could get. And when we got to Nashville, I was never more miserable in my life. The air was so thick I could barely breathe and just moving around outside the AC was agony. Me and my metabolism hated Nashville. The last time we visited a couple of years ago, the weather was more reasonable and we were able to wander around Cheekwood very comfortably.
The light show looks quite lovely. Enjoy! (And take pictures, please?)

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

I have a friend from the South who refers to Nashville as part of the "swelter belt."