Country Music: Live at the Ryman

October 31, 2019

If you haven't watched Country Music, a film by Ken Burns, you need to put it on the top of your must do list. The 9th episode is a live concert at the Ryman in Nashville, TN.  The Ryman is the original Grand Ole Opry. After we watched the  concert we headed out the door for Myrtle Beach to start our fifth year on the boat.

We left home on Tuesday October 15th, stopped in Fishkill for the night and the next day we landed in beautiful Middlebrook, VA.  We have met special people on our adventures, Debbie and Robb are two for example.  They opened their home and hearts to us for two nights. Their house sits in Shenandoah Valley and no matter which window you look out, you can see rolling hills and winding road.  Ideal!  There are 6 of them that live in this fine setting, two humans, two dachshunds and two horses. So in addition to Robb and Debbie there is Willow and Daisy, dachshunds and Eli and Eddy, horses.

We took a ride into Lexington to be tourists, Washington Lee University was one of stops after having lunch.

Debbie

Robb

 

Our day in Lexington.

 

Day four we arrived at my nephew's for a great weekend.  We headed, and landed, at the boat in Myrtle Beach on Monday.  Noon o'clock we walked into the boat to the mess created from setting up the boat for her summer.  But much more than that we walked into a boat that was upside down from the work we had done.  We had the heads changed out from seawater to fresh water and a new air conditioner installed.  It took us the better part of four days to clean up the mess, put most things away and start bringing stuff from the truck. In the spring we had moved everything in the boat either because we were preparing it for summer, making it ready for the hose work and installation of the heads.  The air conditioner died during the summer, so that was an additional mess that added to the beauty below.  Sprinkled in with the work we had to do were the good times we had with people at the marina and local friends.

On the outside there was a lot to do as well that fell on Rob.

I can't tell you how much time it took me to get this picture into the right place of this blog but I really wanted you to see what I was raving about. It still is not in the right place but I had to settle.

We had two of these installed this summer and life couldn't be better for a trip to the head.

Sometimes I think about the response that people might have while reading my blog and I came up with so many it might be.  Here are just a few.

• Laughter from those who know personally what it is like to own a boat
• Frowns from those who personally know what it is like to own a boat and comments about the blog-oh get over it this is what boating is all about.  We all spend gobs of time and money working on our boats.
• Smiles of envy as they read the blog and romanticize traveling by boat. The key word here is romanticize.
• Amazement that Rob and I are doing this.
• They must be rich to be able to do this. If we had been rich when started this, we aren't any more.
• That doesn't look like any fun at all. Why would anyone want to do this. These reactions to my blog are short lived, because those people stop reading my blog.

Where was I?  Oh yes, I am sitting on our boat on a gorgeous day eating Smarties and writing. Smarties are a candy I often had as a kid.  Don't tell anybody it really is a disgusting habit.

Silence is the way to knowledge.  If we expound on what we already know we miss the opportunity to learn from others.

Nice to see you again.
Tricia