I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 801. Today the amateur traveler talks about music and

mountains, the Civil War and Civil Rights, whiskey and the, as we take a road trip through Tennessee.

I know that I should be heading home, but maybe not, maybe not today.

Welcome the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about

Tennessee. I'd like to welcome back to the show Stephanie Craig from History Fangirl.com

who has come to talk to us about road tripping in the state of Tennessee.

Stephanie, welcome back to the show.

Thank you. Yeah, it's a little different than Bulgaria and Serbia where we've talked about before.

Your life is a little different than it was.

You were still a single last time we talked and didn't have a toddler so much as

changed.

A lot is different and I think I'm sure a lot of your listeners have turned from international travel to really exploring

America or Canada or wherever they happen to be domestically based and that's something that we did out of necessity but also we ended up

realizing that there was so much more here and as soon even when we could start

traveling internationally again we have kept diving into new states and really enjoying America.

It's a pretty cool country.

It is.

I'm a fan of international travel,

but I am also a huge fan of taking a road trip in the US.

I think it was just because it was the only type of travel I did for so long that I was like,

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