bye bye nashville

perhaps he should have watched his speed



whats new everyone? one thing id like to discuss momentarily is chili over pasta. when i told my friend sarah i was going to lexington kentucky, she said i had to try this concoction. apparently its a cincinnatti thing, but it has spread south. heres the thing - they take a plate of spaghetti, cover it with chili, and then dump cheese on it. its called a 'chili 3-way'. adding either onions or beans makes it a '4-way' and adding both would be a '5-way'. get it? ok so i was excited to try it in lexington, but i arrived on a sunday evening and they were closed. so on my way out of town monday morning i tried it. didnt like it. but today, i noticed another regional chain had it, so i gave it another shot and kind of enjoyed it. so i recommend at least trying it if youre ever in this weird part of the country.
nashville is actually a hell of a town; im enjoying it immensely. its fairly spead out and theres a lot of traffic, but its much prettier than i expected. today i started by going to the bicentennial mall park, which is in the government district of downtown. its a fairly new park, and it details the history and landscape of tennessee. its really cool. i then went to riverfront park, which is on the cumberland river. its less a park and more an ampitheater, but it looks like a great place to see a concert. it has stadium seating made of grass (seriously). unfortunately, it also has a bunch of bums sleeping in it. it seemed to be in the 'bad' part of town. then i walked around the city, mostly on honky tonk row and 2nd street. they seem like fun places to go out for some beers and live music.
following the city i went to the nashville zoo, which is just ok as far as zoos go. it was definitely fun and interesting, but ive probably been spoiled living so cose to the bronx zoo all my life. not a bad way to spend a couple hours though. zoos are smellly.
finally, i went to j percy priest lake and dam, which was just a huge lake. theres not much to say aboot that.
so unfortunately, thats aboot it for nashville. i hope i get to come back here sometime, cuz i like it a lot.
tomorrow i head to hotlanta to see mike and shelley. enston and heather fly in friday. thats gonna be great, but one thing im not looking forward to doing this weekend is figuring out where im going once i leave atlanta. see, i had two nights booked on the mississippi gulf coast, followed by two nights in new orleans. bad timing. ill tell you how that ends up going soon. be good...