{"id":14264,"date":"2024-09-19T07:54:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T11:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=14264"},"modified":"2025-03-23T18:59:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T22:59:33","slug":"ts_10-hop-7-nashville-tn-to-tallahassee-fl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/19\/ts_10-hop-7-nashville-tn-to-tallahassee-fl\/","title":{"rendered":"TS_10 Hop 7: Nashville TN to Tallahassee FL"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TS_10 Hop 7<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

486 miles via I-40, I-440 (around Nashville), I-65 and US 27. Cumulative route miles: 2,067. Auto miles: 615. Cumulative auto miles: 2,196. We had one snack\/bio stop at a Wendy’s in Mongomery AL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The weather was very good, fortunately, because this was a LONG day of driving. About 8 hours behind the wheel. But the navigation was simple, the roads were good and there were very few delays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our home in Nashville was the Drury Inn<\/a> near the airport. The choice of this hotel was a bit accidental. When I first looked for an inexpensive hotel in Nashville I found several hotels of acceptable quality for under $100 per night. But when I booked just before we started this hop I could find nothing under $100. I took the Drury because it wasn’t outrageously expensive (about $270 total or $135 per night) and I recalled staying at a Drury in St Louis many years ago and remembered it as a fine hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we arrived the hotel could not find my reservation. But they did find a reservation for me in NOVEMBER. I have no idea how I booked for November instead of September, but it took me about half an hour to get it straightened out. I think this error was the reason that I couldn’t find an inexpensive hotel. But I stayed with Drury. And am very glad I did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This hotel was AWESOME. Not only was the room more than adequate, but it had a wonderful free breakfast and an indoor\/outdoor pool that we actually used. But the big surprise was the free dinner with drinks.<\/em> The dinner was just tacos, but very good tacos. And both Marlene and I were given tickets for 3 free drinks. We got buzzed on two margaritas each. We didn’t even use the third ticket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This hotel was a bargain at $130 per night (which is what I paid).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We took a driving tour of Nashville in the morning – the Grand Ole Opry<\/a> (which we didn’t go in, just walked around the grounds), Opry Mills<\/a> and downtown Nashville<\/a>. We then went back to downtown after 9pm to see the music scene. Both trips were fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Drury lobby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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At the Grand Ole Opry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marlene at the Ryman Auditorium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lower Broadway in the daylight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Free dinner and drinks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Live music<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lower Broadway at night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bridgestone Arena<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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486 miles via I-40, I-440 (around Nashville), I-65 and US 27. Cumulative route miles: 2,067. Auto miles: 615. Cumulative auto miles: 2,196. We had one snack\/bio stop at a Wendy’s in Mongomery AL. The weather was very good, fortunately, because this was a LONG day of driving. About 8 hours behind the wheel. But the … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,106,107,7,16,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-hotels","category-music","category-routes","category-places-tn","category-ts_10"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-3I4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14483,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14264\/revisions\/14483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}