May 18th-23rd 2014
Right after graduation, Johanna (aka Joey, an old friend from high school) and I began a trip we had been planning for years. Courtney, a friend of ours from elementary school moved to Nashville for school when we graduated and we had thought it would be fun to go and visit her. Only recently had we began seriously talking about this trip and making it happen. We decided this would be a fun post-graduation trip to celebrate our recent accomplishments!
As mentioned before, we literally left right after graduation on the 17th. After spending final moments with friends that day, we packed Joey's car and set out on our grand adventure at 1 am on the 18th!
We only stopped a few times during the 13 hour drive, and one of those was to get lunch and visit the St. Louis Arch. St. Louis is a funny place. As we attempted to get near the arch, we ended up in Illinois only to return to Missouri and spend another 30 minutes trying to get on the road below the bridge we were on. Good grief.
We finally made it.
Arch selfie!
Oh wait- this is the sign for Nashville, IL. This sign gave us all sorts of trouble.
This is the real Nashville!
After 13 hours in the car, we were so excited to arrive in Nashville and see Courtney!
Joey and I had so many donuts for road trip snacks.. waaaaay too many!
The Parthenon: a full scale replica of the one in Greece
The trio: me, Courtney and Joey
Why do I always end up behind bars?
Love Circle, overlooking the beautiful city of Nashville
For you country fans, on the way down from Love Circle
lives Rich from Big & Rich. Mount Richmore
Downtown Nashville
From the Cumberland River
Joey and Courtney
Look familiar?
While in Nashville, I got tired of my hair. With encouragement from Joey, I chopped it...
So much hair gone!
Courtney, Joey and I
You know you're in the south when..
Last night in Nashville spent on Broadway
Thank you, thank you very much!
And now for a shameless plug. Courtney is an awesome photographer. Naturally, we got volunteered to participate in her art. Check out some of her shots:
On the way back from Nashville, Joey and I decided we have similar travel styles and have already started to plan our next adventure. Joey has a goal to visit one new country a year. We are going to head to the Great White North (Canada) later this year!
Nashville
My stats as of May 2014:
- 4% of the world visited
- Estimated mileage: 80400
- been to:
- 5 continents
- 11 countries
- 13 states (NE, SD, CO, IA, KS, MO, WV, WY, UT, NM, IL, AL, TN)
No comments:
Post a Comment