North Carolina (cont.) and Tennesee
In my first installment, I left us in Lake Junaluska NC. We spent another few days there (9 total) and enjoyed a street concert of bluegrass and cloggers, a fun visit to the farmers market and a beautiful hike and drive in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Farmers market plenty!
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| Street music and dancers on Main Street Waynesville |
Smoky Mountain waterfall
A one-day drive brought us to Nashville, a place we´ve visited several times over a dozen years. We have a favorite place to camp here, at a lake just a short drive from downtown.
Our campsite near Nashville
Cooling off in the lake
We very much enjoy seeking out the songwriters and not-yet-discovered artists who make up a sizable portion of the population. The city has many small, intimate venues to listen to great music that never makes it on the radio; and great music that WAS on the radio sung by the people who wrote the songs that the big stars eventually recorded.
Three amazing songwriters
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We always visit the Country Music Hall of Fame, a wonderful museum that tells the stories and displays the artifacts that span the whole history of the music from the cotton field songs and English traditional ballads of the Appalachian region to the biggest hitmakers of today.
Nashville also has one of our favorite bike trails, the Music City Bikeway, and we managed to ride it twice (25 miles round trip) during our time here.
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