As luck would have it there was a winery near our RV park so we just had to visit it. It was the Long Hollow Winery. Very nice tasting room, but it was not near a vineyard. The hostess for the evening was very nice, young and very quick witted. And seemed to be in fast forward, and her ears were ringing so bad so said. Not sure what that means. Anyway we bought their reisling and concord grape wines. The reisling was the best we have tried, more dry than sweet. We are not sweet wine fans.
The first place we hit in Nashville was the Blackstone Brewpub. The place looked great, very well done. An upscale brewpub with an awesome menu. Even if I did not drink beer I would eat there! But the beer is just as good. I actually loved the Heffeweissen the best. Would love to revisit this place. Next we headed down to Broadway to do the tourist thing. After shopping and visiting a mediocre brewpub we wanted ice cream. It was here I got the laugh of the night.
While in line I had a guy behind me hand me a business card. White with black type, looked like it was printed using a home computer, complete with perforated edges. It was classic. On it was a bands name and website. The guy said that they are an up and coming band that just signed a 3 song record contract, he wanted me to check em out. I asked some questions finding out he was there PR manager. And then I saw a guy, a male Paris Hilton wanna be the way he sat trying to look cool. When in reality he cracked me up, he had sent his PR guy to go get his ice cream. He sat like he was a big shot. So i started to ask him the questions directly “where have you played” “what kind of music do you play”. The more he became uncomfortable talking to me like I was one of the little people that he did not have time for the more I asked questions. It was a fun little game that I do get bored of and let the primaddona off the hook. It was just so funny to me watching from then on at the people, noticing which ones were looking to “make it” in Nashville and thought they were important.
Overall Nashville was a fun time, wish we had more than a night to explore it.