Nashville

Nashville, Tennessee: the people are friendly; they look you in the eyes when they greet you. In a traffic delay near Vanderbilt University (the basketball game had just ended) my cab was stalled for 10 minutes alongside a delivery car that read "freakin' fast delivery".

It was unusually cold there when I arrived, about 22 degrees at the height of day. I was disoriented in my directions. Looking west, I thought it was east. With no sun to guide me, I got lost while roaming the west end of Nashville near Vanderbilt University.

Saturday night I went out with the scientists to a trendy blues bar in downtown. The band had to compete with the TV because the Steelers were playing Jacksonville in the play-offs (and it was a very close game.) Downtown Nashville is crowned by the AT&T building whose spires appear to be Morse code connectors. It's a music and party town.

I shot these photos while walking through the west end of Nashville. The upper photo is on the Vanderbilt campus.