Nashville: Pedestrian Bridge & Mike's Ice Cream
The John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge is a short walk away from Lower Broadway where all the Honky Tonks are. It is a nice little walk that connects downtown Nashville with the residential suburbs of East Nashville, and contains a nice view of the downtown skyline and also the color-changing Gateway or "Korean War Veterans Memorial" Bridge.
I just love how peaceful it feels any time of the day. Although it's not like the Walnut Street Pedestrian Bridge from Chattanooga where the both sides of the bridge are vibrant or touristy, it's still a good place to come and walk or bike through and back.
Plus, because it's a short walk from downtown/Broadway, you can get yourself some Mike's Ice Cream after and stop by all the Honky Tonk's.
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Nashville: Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Studio B, & Hatch Show Print
I'm always asked if I moved to Nashville for music. As in, Are you a musician? No. Mostly for the sake of others hearing, I am not.
But definitely one of the things I love about Nashville is it's music. The authenticity of the performances here and the community and support for each other that I've seen is really inspiring.
But to learn more about the history of music in Nashville, the Country Music Hall of Fame is the way to go.
In addition to admission to the Country Music Hall of Fame (CMHF), check out the RCA Studio B tour, and a tour (or at least a visit) of Hatch Show Print.
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Travel Guide: Chattanooga, Tennessee in 8 Hours
When April was here #waybackwhen (specifically November), I wanted to go on a day trip somewhere else aside from Nashville or the immediate surrounding area. Researching various options (including other nearby states), and asking others who are from here, Chattanooga was the chosen city considering it was nearly everyone's first recommendation.
We initially had the idea to set out super early, had even bought tickets to ride the Southern Belle Riverboat cruise at 12:15pm. But sometimes not everything goes as planned.
The night before, I got a flat tire. So the next morning — the one where we were supposed to head out super early — we had to go to the tire shop instead. We got breakfast after, thinking we had a lot of time, and left around 11am. After realizing we might just barely make it, we called the Riverboat company at about 11:30am asking what would happen if we were five minutes late, to be informed that the boat had left 15 minutes ago. We were so confused until we realized that Chattanooga is one hour ahead of Nashville.
We had literally missed the boat.
I was able to get a gift certificate for the money I spent so I could go back later. I'll be sure to share the actual experience. But in case you want to go now then I recommend you get a Groupon.
Here's what we actually did instead:
- Lunch at Good Dog and dancing on the sidewalk ;)
- The Incline Railway
- Clumpie's Ice Cream (made from local ingredients)
- Drive through Lookout Mountain en route to Rock City
- Side trip to Georgia look out and a fairytale village
- Walnut Street Pedestrian Bridge — awesome at sunset
- Carousel Ride at Coolidge Park
- Took night pictures at the Polka Dot Wall — exact location hard to determine. By Broad and Main St, near The Feed restaurant.
- Dinner at Sugar's
With additional time, we could have explored:
- Tennessee Aquarium — world’s largest freshwater aquarium
- River Gorge Explorer
- Raccoon Mountain Caverns
- A show at Track 29
- Some more districts of downtown Chattanooga —see a breakdown here.
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Los Angeles: Walt Disney Concert Hall & Nearby Attractions
Funny enough, I have to admit I've never seen an actual show in the Walt Disney Concert Hall — I've only been in the lobby or meandering outside it. And that's the thing — although I've heard the acoustics and performances are amazing and it's definitely on my list to experience one day — just from viewing it and walking around this amazing architectural structure is an experience in itself.
There's some stairs that will lead you up through the seemingly-moving reflective plates. You can go around to the back to see a garden area and a beautiful mosaic flower piece, "A Rose for Lilly," — Frank Gehry's tribute to Lillian Disney — and that will lead you to some stairs with a leaved wall for more #instagrammoments haha. But actually. It was a cute setting to capture Whitney and Chris.
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