Tennessee Turkey Trot<\/a> trip when I ran away from home to spend Thanksgiving in Nashville, Tennessee. It was the first time I had attempted a full-fledged holiday escape and was just a little tentative. The photo is from my night at the opry. Each winter, the Grand Ole Opry returns to its original home at the Ryman Theater for several shows. I got a great seat for one of those shows along with a picture with “Minnie Pearl”. Other Nashville area attractions I took in included Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage and the Country Music Hall of Fame. The escape seemed to go well, with no one actually cursing me when I was close enough to hearing range, and other Thanksgiving and Christmas escapes would follow.<\/p>\n
\nTrip Peeks are short articles published when my world is too busy or too boring for a current events piece to be completed in time for the Sunday posting. In addition to a photo thumbnail from a completed road trip, each Peek includes a brief description of that photo, plus links to the full-sized photo and the trip journal it is from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>This picture is from my 2005 Tennessee Turkey Trot<\/a> trip when I ran away from home to spend Thanksgiving in Nashville, Tennessee. It was the first time I had attempted a full-fledged holiday escape and was just a little tentative. The photo is from my night at the opry. Each winter, the Grand Ole Opry returns to its original home at the Ryman Theater for several shows. I got a great seat for one of those shows along with a picture with “Minnie Pearl”. Other Nashville area attractions I took in included Andrew Jackson’s Hermitage and the Country Music Hall of Fame. The escape seemed to go well, with no one actually cursing me when I was close enough to hearing range, and other Thanksgiving and Christmas escapes would follow.<\/p>\n