This was our last full day of the trip. We spent a quiet morning doing one last load of laundry, watching Olympic golf and playing on our computers. At lunchtime we went to Uncle Bud's Catfish, Chicken and Such on the recommendation of our friends Barb and Bob. This is truly a "local dive" with paper towels for napkins and lots of regulars. We had the fried oysters and catfish. Everything comes with cole slaw, beans and hush puppies and very friendly service. Then we were off to see The Hermitage, which was the home of Andrew Jackson. Oh my, is that one beautiful and huge house. Since it is located a fair ways from Nashville, especially in the 1830's when it could take 5 or 6 hours to travel there, many of their guests spent days with the family when they visited. Some spent months! They had 2 guest bedrooms with only 3 beds among them so you had to be prepared to share the bed with 1 or even 2 others if the house was full. Apparently Jackson was the third richest former president when he died, after Washington and Kennedy.
The rest of the day was spent relaxing and finishing up the food we had left over, which made for an interesting dinner. Tomorrow we say so long to Tennessee. It's been a fun and educational trip and I have a much more positive opinion of Tennessee and the south in general.
i think we were there in 1997. Oysters were very good and there were a lot of them. Tell Mike I'm missing the afternoon beer!
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