Nashville & Atlanta

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Kate had a meeting in Atlanta Georgia. Rather than fly down we made it a bit of a driving adventure stopping in Nashville for the Blue Bird Cafe on the way down and again on the way back. We visited Chattanooga (for the choo-choo on track 29) and the nearby  Lookout Mountain (with Big Rock Candy Mountain ringing in our ears).

The image at left is the statue of Athena in the life size Parthenon (1897) replica in Centennial Park Nashville. Why bother going to Athens, Greece? The real Parthenon (438BC) is mostly a pile of rubble (1687) and the Elgin Marbles aren't even there anymore — they're in London, England! In Atlanta we stayed near the Olympic Square. Visited the Coca-Cola museum and the Martin Luther King memorial. Why is every street in Atlanta a variant of "Peach Street"?

On the way back we stayed at an Antebellum Colonial home (with the nearby slave cabins) in the mountains and got to see David Rawlings and Gillian Welch perform a dynamite set of rock-a-billy in a small Nashville club well off the beaten path.

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Ps. this note and the accompanying photo album were prepared during the COVID-19 lockdown of February 2021. The photos are from scanned slides taken at the time.

Stockholm

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In July of 2001 we made our first trip to Stockholm Sweden. Kate was invited to present at a conference, I tagged along to carry her bags and our friend Cindy travelled with us.

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Grand Canyon

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In March I had a conference on Long Beach (that's a little south of Los Angeles). We made a bit of holiday out of it. We flew in and out of Las Vegas and did a grand tour of some of the national parks -- Joshua Tree, Grand Canyon, Bryce and Zion.

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