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Tennessee Trails, Take Me Home
Apr 28th, 2013 at 11:00AM:
After a long, wet winter, I needed some dirt.
With the mountain bike trails around my Indiana home too muddy to ride, I picked up my buddy Jimmy and pointed the Forester south to Nashville. The temperature was about 10 degrees warmer than what we'd been suffering through this Hoosier farce of a spring, and from what I could tell from the Internet chatter, the Tennessee trails seemed to be in ...
4 U.S. cities that need a major theme park
Apr 14th, 2011 at 8:00AM: A glance at a map of the United States makes my theme park-addicted mind flag the states and cities with theme parks. To me, the states without theme parks look like big holes in the map. I figured I'd list the cities that I feel could use a major theme park. I'm going to preface this list by admitting that I have a completely outsider's view of these cities. I'm going mainly on the population, so ...Renovated Opryland Hotel reopens with glitz, glam and a whole lot of country
Nov 15th, 2010 at 9:30AM: The Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center reopens today following a $270 million face lift after the May 2010 flood that shut down the hotel and convention center for six months.
Most of what took place over the past six months is repairs from severe water damage after May's devastating floods in the region. The famed Opryland Hotel reclaims its place in hotel history when it opens ...
New York: best and worst city in schismatic survey
Oct 21st, 2010 at 12:00PM: If you want to travel like a local, then it makes sense to know something about your destination ... and isn't the best city to live attractive? It's the kind of place you'd want to explore and see why it's so loved. And at the same time, you'd probably want to avoid the worst of the worst – who would want to go there?
Well, a new Harris Interactive poll makes this thinking hard to ...Relief: Four airport perks coming soon
Oct 18th, 2010 at 8:00AM: There's nothing fun about going to the airport, and the regulatory climate isn't likely to change that anytime soon. Security will still be a nightmare, and you won't be able to bring your own water with you (at least not for a while). Fortunately, there are companies out there looking for ways to make your airport experience better.
So, what can you expect to see in your local airport in the ...Gaylord Opryland hotel to re-open Nov. 15 in Nashville
Jul 12th, 2010 at 12:30PM: The clean-up work is done at the Gaylord Opryland hotel, and construction crews have moved on to the rebuilding and renovating.
Hotel officials say Nashville's largest hotel will re-open on Nov. 15, six months after the Cumberland River overflowed its banks and flooded the hotel's common areas.
The photo below, which was released by the Gaylord Opryland, shows that the water also rose within ...Grand Ole Opry's famed circle survives Nashville flooding
May 12th, 2010 at 2:00PM: For almost seven decades, country music legends have stood on a single piece of oak floor to perform in the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. The "Opry Circle" was just the center part of the stage at the Ryman Auditorium when the legendary show moved there in 1943.
When the current Grand Ole Opry House was finished in 1974, a 6-foot circle was cut from the oak stage floor and installed ...Nashville landmarks remain closed after historic flooding
May 4th, 2010 at 9:30AM:
After a weekend of torrential rains and flooding, sunshine is predicted in Nashville, Tenn., today. Officials at many of the city's landmark spots for visitors will be assessing the damage and starting the clean-up process.
Here's a look at what's open, what isn't and what won't be for some time:
The Gaylord Opryland Resort is closed. At last report, many of the hotel's common areas were ...Nashville's Gaylord Opryland Resort to be closed for months after floodwaters rise
May 3rd, 2010 at 12:00PM: The Cumberland River breach this morning in Nashville, Tenn., has flooded the Gaylord Opryland Resort. Gaylord Entertainment now says that the hotel and popular convention site is damaged and currently closed.
Company officials say the extent of the damage has not been fully assessed, but that the hotel will likely be closed for several months.
...Floodwaters force evacuation of Nashville's Gaylord Opryland Hotel
May 3rd, 2010 at 8:30AM: It was a late night for guests of the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center, as the hotel was evacuated because of rising floodwaters.
The torrential rains have stopped in Nashville, Tenn., but the Cumberland River continued to rise overnight.
Around midnight CDT, Nashville emergency officials decided to remove the estimated 1,500 guests from the hotel. Instead of spending the night ...Hole breaks in fuselage, Southwest plane lands safely
Jul 14th, 2009 at 12:30PM: A Southwest Airlines 737 landed safely in West Virginia last night after a 1 foot by 1 foot hole opened in the fuselage. Passengers could actually see the sky through the gape. Cabin pressure dropped, and passengers put on their masks quickly. Nobody was injured.
The plane was flying from Nashville to Baltimore but diverted as a result of the hole. The pilot landed the plane, to the thanks, ...Chattanooga, Portsmouth among top art destinations in the U.S.
Apr 18th, 2009 at 3:00PM: Who thought that Tennessee and New Hampshire would be some of the top towns in the country for art lovers. AmericanStyle magazine just issued the results of its twelfth annual arts destinations poll. Some spots are predictable. Others, like Chattanooga, will just blow your mind. This is the first year Chattanooga made the list, shooting all the way up to second in the mid-sized city category. If ...Bring your car: America's 10 least walkable cities
Jul 22nd, 2008 at 5:00PM: It may come as no surprise that San Francisco ranks as America's #1 walkable city, but what about the rest of the country? After compiling a list of the "walkability" of 40 American cities, Walk Score gives us a good idea of what cities are pedestrian friendly and which ones require cars. The bottom ten cities on the list give us a few places where pedestrians are far and few between and driving ...Photo of the Day (7-16-08)
Jul 16th, 2008 at 2:00PM:
I'm a fan of funky, distinctive signs. Since I'm in Montana at the moment--and Montana is a land of meat and funky signs, this sign caught my attention.
Ultraclay! snapped this photo in Nashville,Tennessee, however. The hint of of Nashville behind the sign evokes the sense that this is a street for meandering and strolling. Any place that has period lamp posts shows some initiative. Jack's ...Airports get their own theme songs
Mar 15th, 2008 at 9:40PM: More and more airports are (trying to become) destinations in themselves, and as such, airport branding is emerging as a tactic for getting travelers to choose one airport or city over another. We wrote about celebrities making announcements at various airports, but here's a new one: theme songs. Although I don't really think that 'theme song" is the best designation for this activity ...Elite Green Car - and other unusual word combinations
Nov 16th, 2007 at 3:01PM: Here's a Super-Duper Secret Leif Pettersen Tip to Hilarious Writing (SDSLPTHW): when you're hurting for a joke, just throw in unexpected word combinations.
Examples: "muscular fart", "righteous taco", "likeable president"
Accordingly, when I tried to write the first paragraph of this post and had to arrange the words 'luxury', 'eco-friendly', 'chauffer', 'Lexus', 'hybrid' and 'Atlanta' in an ...One Hundred Very Angry U.S. Cities
Aug 22nd, 2006 at 7:35PM: Why this list of angry U.S. cities makes me laugh - I don't know? Could it be that Orlando, the very home of Disney World's Magic Kingdom and Mickey Mouse ranks number one for some bizarre reason? Maybe it's because my city (Tampa, FL) ranks 12 and the near by St. Petersburg, FL comes in second? So my first question is this - what's up with all the anger Florida? World Hum points readers to a fine ...
