Sizzle & Bounce
Although today was the third day of my drive, it felt like the first that was "cross country" because I spent the whole day driving west! So in true road-trip fashion, here's a story of two adventures and two meals, a day begun at the world's most beautiful rest stop (pictured below) where I asked for a recommendation of where might be someplace out of the ordinary to stop on my journey accross Tennesee... There I was advised that Tina Turner's museum in Brownsville was the place to go, and so - armed with a destination - off I went.....eventually. First, passing through Nashville I just couldn't resist stopping for my favorite machaca burrito at Oscar's burrito shop, and then having been back on the road only a short time, I started being beckoned by Loretta Lynne to come pop by for a visit! But this did not disappoint! I was richly rewarded by detouring from my drive by a sojourn in a tiny coal-town world. Complete with a saloon, a tiny coal mine and three versions of Loretta Lynne's home: a replica of the house she was born in Butcher Holler, the house that she used to live in, now turned into a museum called The Coal Miner's Daughter, from whose kitchen window you can spy her actual home (no photographs!). Back on the road, newly delighted and refreshed, I was bound once more for Tina Turner's museum, housed in the one-room school house where she was educated in Nutbush, Tennessee. You get (at least) two for the price of one at this museum because there you can also tour the house of Sleepy John Estes. My ultimate destination was a soft bed at the Drury Inn Memphis - actually in Mississippi - where I made it just in time for the five thirty kick back, and fellow guest who greeted me with "what's your story? everyone has one!" indeed. What I found at the Drury was a room full of stories of the road, of family, of Christmas shopping, and tales of the swimming pool, where I decided to take my road-weary bones and end the day by giving them a soak!!
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