Day Three - Knoxville to Nashville to Louisville to St. Louis!

Lots of stops today! Headed across TN to Nashville (the Athens of the South) for lunch with Kt at Bosco’s! It’s been forever since we’ve seen each other – so great to see you! It was a perfect day and after lunch we drove through the pretty Vanderbuilt campus then went over to the only full scale replica of the Parthenon in the world. It was built in 1897 for the Nashville Centennial Exposition. Originally made of plaster, wood and brick, it was rebuilt in 1920 out of concrete.


Next we drove through downtown and I snapped some pictures along the way.

Next stop, Mammoth Cave National Park. Unfortunately, we didn’t go in the caves – you can’t self tour and the tours were all a few hours. Since we were still in Central time and headed back to Eastern for dinner, the timing just didn’t work out.

We did hike down to an entrance of a cave where a man named Floyd Collins got trapped in 1925 and a huge rescue was attempted but unfortunately they didn’t get to him in time.

Then we drove down to the Green River Ferry crossing.

Up to Louisville to have dinner with the Sears! Emily is 37 weeks and looks amazing!

After dinner, we drove 3.5 hours to St. Louis (well, Fairview Heights). It was the most boring drive yet, with many miles of one lane interstate, but I’m sure that will be topped today with Kansas. We’re off to the top of the Gateway arch!