Nashville, TN

Nashville
Arriving early in Nashville we head over to our motel to be told,
"check in is at 3"'
"can we check in early?"
"check in is at 3"
"can we leave our bags somewhere?"
"check in is at 3"
"ok do you know where we can go to eat some nice food?"
"check in is at 3"
"thank you, you've been very helpful"
"check in is at 3"

Eventually we find a tiny wooden hut full of cheery servers and old ladies having their Saturday lunch. I slam a chair into the ceiling fan at one point, swearing very loudly and drawing shocked looks from the other diners. Meat and three is pretty tasty but does give everyone some kind of digestional discomfort ranging from meat sweats to stomach cramps. Eventually we check in, at 3, and put our stuff in our room before driving over to the touristy part of Nashville.

Nashville is the home of country music. As such, it's main street is littered with honky tonk bars and tourist tat vendors in equal measure. We spend an hour checking out the main drag before returning to motel, showering pre lashing and trying to determine where to have dinner. The cheap Mexican restaurant nearby with huge beer glasses wins out in the end as it always will. We get smashed on huge beers and deceptively sweet daiquiris then go out boozing in Nashville.

We find a bar called legends corner where we have one drink before heading towards tootsies, a bar recommended by the lonely planet, or the guide book, or the Internet, or some bastard chimera manifest out of the malevolent energies of all three. Tootsies is great fun, girls dance on bars to earn free drinks, or just attention while the bands at either end compete over who gets the bigger crowd. An American guy tells Tara that he has no chance with the girl he has just approached, the girl is Lizzie. We move on, Tara and the girls go back to the motel while tomo and dipo go and check out 'one more' bar. We see a band playing the Doors covers then go and get a hot dog. We see a girl freely vomiting in her own lap apparently unnoticed by the staff before we go get a cab. The cabbie tells us that recently all this area was flooded,

"so how come it got flooded?"
"well, I guess there was just a lot of water"
"... So how come there was a lot of water?"
"I guess god did it."