AT#173 - Travel to Nashville, Tennessee

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2009

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to Geoff Smith about his boyhood home of Nashville that he recently moved back to. What would bring a musician back to Nashville after he has lived all of the world? Geoff talks about the things that tourists come to see: the Grand Ole Opry, Honky Tonk Row (including his own piano bar the Big Bang Bar), the Country Music Hall of Fame, The Musicians Hall of Fame, The Opryland Hotel. Then Geoff tells us what he really loves about Nashville. Nashville is a place where creative and artistic people can live among the beautiful rolling hills of Tennessee in one of the USA’s big three music cities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I got my bags back on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good
0:08.0	in my passport photo.
0:10.5	Amateur Traveler episode 173. Today the Amateur Traveler goes to Nashville and
0:17.5	our guest will be a Nashville musician. Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get into
0:36.6	today's interview, I do have two news stories for you. Before you ask, yes, it is a
0:42.3	slow travel newsweek. The first one amused me.
0:45.0	There's a new award that is going to be presented to the best restroom in America
0:51.0	and they're looking for your videos and your help spotting
0:54.1	unusual public restrooms in hotels and those sort of places and you can check
1:00.4	out the site best restroom.com If you have one in mind.
1:03.7	This is one of a series of things that I get sent to me.
1:06.0	So the second one is really a place where I put a lot of these
1:09.0	that I don't mention in the show.
1:10.5	There's a surprising number of contests right now. People who are giving away things for travel photographs, people who are giving away probably the most amazing one is going to win $100,000 and six months on an island of the Great Barrier Reef.
1:26.1	I'm taking all of those things that I get offers for and putting those on Amateur Traveler.
1:30.8	com slash board.
1:32.4	There is a contest area in the discussion boards.
1:34.7	And if you spot something also that you think the community should know about,
1:38.4	that's a great place for you to put it.
1:40.4	I'd like to welcome the show Jeff Smith who is coming to us from
1:46.9	Nashville Tennessee to talk to us about Nashville Tennessee. Jeff welcome to the
1:51.2	show. Hey Chris, thanks. And for those of you who listen to the show. Hey Chris, thanks.
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