AquaFennatic Great Loop Blog: Green Turtle Bay KY & Nashville side trip

Sept 25^nd – Once again, it was a hot and sunny day. Maria felt sick to her stomach during the night and threw-up a couple of times. I didn’t realize how sick she was since she moved to the salon to sleep on the couch while I was asleep. I asked her why and she said she didn’t want to wake me up … how sweet is that! We had plans to go to anchor out with a bunch of Loopers in a beautiful bay today, however Maria wasn’t feeling well so she said I should go with the group. We had 5 couples on Brian’s & Judy’s boat “Valentine”. We were there from Noon to just before dark floating on a Lily Pad, floating chairs, noodles … plus anything else that floats. Brian BBQed some sausages and there were plenty of munchies. What a beautiful and fun day … however it was too bad Maria had to miss it. Everyone asked “Where’s Maria” and missed her chipmunk like voice … LOL! When I got back to the boat it was getting dark and the boat was hot inside thus I was wondering what happened. The main breaker for my 2^nd panel tripped thus the air condition pump and mid air unit were off. It took me only seconds to fix the issue … I felt bad since she had to suffer in the heat since she doesn’t know how the two 30 amp panels work. I’ll need to spend some time showing her so that she’s able to deal with an issue like this herself in the future.

Sept 26^th – It was raining this morning with sunshine in the afternoon and it has finally cooled off enough to make it comfortable outside without having to be in the water to keep cool. We borrowed the courtesy van today to go to Best Buy to get the data off our hard drive of our dead laptop. After we got back to the marina we walked into town to get some needed exercise. We met with the other Loopers to discuss our plans for our Nashville and Chattanooga trip and then we went to pick up the rental cars to prepare for our departure tomorrow morning. We went for dinner at the Yacht Club to celebrate Rob’s birthday from “Over Ice” … unfortunately Rob and Brenda can’t make it to Nashville since he has an issue with his engine that he’ll be dealing with while we are playing. After dinner everyone wanted to watch the Presidential Debate and it was interesting to get an American perspective on the upcoming election.

Sept 27^th – It was a cool and sunny morning and we had to move our boats to a more secluded spot in the marina before we left for Nashville. We arrived at Nashville at about 1pm and then checked into our room and then drove to the Grand Old Opry. Unfortunately we weren’t able to get tickets for the 7pm show thus we decided to go back to the hotel and get ready to hit the bars in the downtown area … a Pub Crawl! We went to the Tin Roof first and heard an amazing band called “Triple Run” and really enjoyed the original song called “Hey Kentucky”.

We then went to multiple Honky Tonks along the main drag and stopped in at any place where the music sparked a connection with us. There’s some amazing talent in the area and our favorite was the first band we saw. At the end of the night we walked back to the hotel across the pedestrian bridge which gave us a great view of the night lights of Nashville as well as the Nissan Stadium (home of the Titans).

Sept 28^th – It was a sunny and warm day. We went down to breakfast in the Hotel and then took the shuttle to downtown Nashville. We went on the Red Neck Comedy Bus tour of Nashville which was entertaining. Afterwards we hit Honky Tonks along Broadway St and again really enjoyed the up and coming talent. We originally planned to have dinner at a place called Pukketts, however we didn’t respond quick enough to their text saying that a table was available thus we went to the best burger joint in town and the burgers were great. After we arrived at the hotel we made plans for moving to Chattanooga tomorrow morning.