I forgot to mention some information about Nashville which is quite interesting. It has about 595,000 people living there. Next to New York City, it has the largest banking and finance industry. That is their #1 industry. The founders of Dollar General, Krispy Kreme Donuts, and the head of Fed Ex have homes out in the country near the country music star homes. Maxwell House coffee started in Nashville.
Anyway, we left for President Andrew Jackson's home as that is in the area. It is called the Hermitage. It is the 3rd most visited Presidential home.
He and his wife are buried in the gardens next to the home. The wall paper in the home is over 200 yrs old. Everything in the home is the original which is amazing.
We left around 12:30 and started heading home. I wanted to get home the same day and not have to stay in another hotel, as I wanted Sunday for cleaning up and doing laundry.
We had a nice trip home until we got up into Indiana. As soon as we got to South Bend, it was dark and the rain was down pouring. Add that to the glare and construction and you have a scary drive on your hands. I still can't believe the GPS took us from Indianapolis to 31 North which takes you forever. We got into Michigan and there was road construction. I drove about 40 mph through that as it was raining hard, dark, and the glare was getting to me. I hate night time driving. The rest of the trip we got to our destinations by 5 or 6 p.m. as I said I would not drive in the dark.
But, we made it home safely. We drove a total of 2500 miles. I did about 90% of the driving on the trip. I think the worse driving on the whole trip was the last 1 1/2 hrs.
Here are a couple of pictures at Andrew Jackson's home.
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