{"id":4859,"date":"2015-10-21T13:08:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T13:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=4859"},"modified":"2015-10-21T22:25:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T22:25:33","slug":"traveling-far-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/?p=4859","title":{"rendered":"Traveling Far Away"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 David and I have traveled to almost all the states except Hawaii.\u00a0 I don’t think I have been in Rhode Island either, but David thinks we passed through it some time in our travels.\u00a0 I don’t remember.\u00a0 Sorry, Rhode Islanders.\u00a0 I really want to remember your state.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 We started out this foggy morning to travel to the state of Texas.\u00a0 We have been through Texas on the way to California and stayed in Houston one time for the International Quilt Show.\u00a0 We also spent a couple of days in Galveston.\u00a0 We want to go back there.<\/em><\/p>\n

Today we drove mostly back roads to Nashville Tennessee.\u00a0\u00a0 There is so much to see on back roads.\u00a0 Small towns, country homes and farms, fields of cattle, horses or goats.\u00a0 We past through one town that was so cute, I wanted to take pictures of every building in it, but the people in the cars behind us didn’t think that was such a good idea.\u00a0\u00a0 I have a picture I have to show you of turkey vultures that had taken over\u00a0a little abandoned house.\u00a0 I did a double take as we passed by it and told David to turn around because there were vultures all over the roof of this house.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 There were\u00a0\u00a0vultures everywhere.\u00a0 Many flew off when we stopped to take pictures.\u00a0 A true\u00a0Halloween sight if I ever saw one.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0 That was probably the weirdest sight we have seen so far.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

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With David at the wheel and me having a few books to read, we were off.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I am going to read this while we are on vacation.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I’m reading this right now and it’s so good.\u00a0 I love Susan Branch.\u00a0 This is sort of a diary of her life.\u00a0 She grew up in the same time period as I did.\u00a0 She loved the Beatles and even got to meet them which makes me so jealous. Ha.\u00a0 She danced to the same music I danced to, sang the same songs I sang and lived a life almost parallel to mine.\u00a0\u00a0 She had some heartbreak in her life I haven’t had, but she still is one of the most optimistic people whose blog I love to read.\u00a0 I am really enjoying this book.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Our intention on this trip was to drive as much of the Natchez Trace trail as we could. Years ago we drove it from Natchez, Tennessee\u00a0to Jackson, Mississipppi.\u00a0 Yesterday and today we drove it from Nashville to Jackson,MS.\u00a0 It’s a very nice drive with little traffic and\u00a0lots of historic things along the way.\u00a0 We saw Merriweather Lewis’ burial site.\u00a0 He died mysteriously one night while taking documents back to Washington, D. C.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

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We have driven through some adorable towns.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Towns with adorable shops and houses.\u00a0 I took so many pictures.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

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Black fences like this seem to be a requirement in some parts of Tennessee.<\/em><\/p>\n

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David let me drive some.\u00a0 Whoopie!\u00a0\u00a0 I had him shaking in his shoes!<\/p>\n

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We came up to the Tennessee River.\u00a0\u00a0 It always amazes me how big our country is where most people get along with each other.\u00a0 You only hear about the ones who don’t.\u00a0 Everyone we have met has been so very nice.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

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Across this amazing bridge we went.\u00a0 You have to have faith that the men who built these bridges knew what they were doing and did it well.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Speaking of bridges…<\/em><\/p>\n

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Over this bridge was a walking path.\u00a0 I have decided to resume my walking across America.\u00a0 I have kind of gotten lax on that the past several months and I can feel it.\u00a0 So, I walked almost two miles and it felt good.<\/em><\/p>\n

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David doesn’t walk with me. He takes pictures.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

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We will be doing this for the next several days.\u00a0 Glad they have carts to carry everything.<\/em><\/p>\n

In closing I will show you some of the barn quilts we have seen .<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 We have seen more barn quilts this time than the time we took a trip to see barn quilts a few years ago!<\/em><\/p>\n

Here’s to trips to fun places and\u00a0 the one with whom to share the ride.\u00a0 Bye.<\/em><\/p>\n

These travel blogs are not posted on the day I wrote them.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 David and I have traveled to almost all the states except Hawaii.\u00a0 I don’t think I have been in Rhode Island either, but David thinks we passed through it some time in our travels.\u00a0 I don’t remember.\u00a0 Sorry, Rhode Islanders.\u00a0 I really want to remember your state. \u00a0\u00a0 We started out this foggy morning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-im-reading","category-our-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4859"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4894,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859\/revisions\/4894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snicklefritz.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}