After a great night’s sleep in St Louis, we were off early to our next stop- Nashville.

The drive proved to be slightly longer than what we expected. We ran into miles and miles of construction and finally decided to get out the ol' Atlas to aid us in finding a detour. Once we arrived in the Music City, we picked up Philosophy Professor Miguel Martinez-Saenz from the airport. We then headed to the "world-famous" Tootsies to meet up with our Nashville alumni. Tootsies had two great country bands playing (Taylor and I, of course, loved the music).

We had a great showing of alumni, even more than we were expecting! We all ordered some of Tootsies famous food, and after Miguel’s tenth time of asking me about the BBQ Chips (that did not exist) I had to explain to him, after we had received our food, that it was BBQ with Chips, NOT BBQ Chips.

Once the event was over we traveled with some of the alumni across the street to Paradise Park... the bar was designed to look like a trailer park. We even met the "judge" of the park, he was very entertaining to say the least. The next morning we ate breakfast at the Loveless Cafe with Jack '73, Cheryl and Chris '10 Nyiri. Apparently, Carrie Underwood had eaten there the week before. We were hoping to see someone famous, but I'm pretty sure we were the closest people to fame there.

We are now on the road heading down to Atlanta. We are excited to see what's in store for us as we embark on our journey along the East coast.

~Ashley

Click on this link to see pictures from the event!