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Nashville, Tennessee A great opportunity was presented to me a couple of weeks ago, so my wife and I took full advantage.  Leaving our home in northern Virginia, we headed to east Tennessee to spend the weekend with a dear friend.  Well, they did not want to sit around and do nothing, so we loaded up the old SUV, and headed to Nashville.  It was only a day trip, and we had had Tickets to the General Jackson showboat.   The folks that put on this show are very friendly. We load up the car, pick up another friend and off we go.  Arriving about an hour before departure gave my wife and her friends the chance to go shopping at the near by mall.  Then we grab our tickets from the desk and off to the pre-boarding area, where there is a musician entertaining us while we wait.  Directions for what to do are announced and then boarding begins.  During the 3 hour cruise there are two separate lunch settings.  Since we were a little hungry, we got the 2nd seating.  Figures. From

Where has Tronster been for the last couple of weeks.  I like to try and update the blog about once or week or so, but work has been tough, and we have been traveling again.  Once my dad told me "Young people go see stuff, and old people go eat stuff."  They live in a small town, and the culinary selections for my parents are limited. A couple of weeks ago, Sunshine and I loaded up and headed to east Tennessee.  This past Memorial Day weekend as a matter fact.  We first joined some friends at the Philippine American Association of East Tennessee.  There we have some great fellowship and some great food.  Because we traveled 8 hours to get there, some of our friends saved us a little bit of the food. But this post is about the Applewood Farmhouse Grill, in Pigeon Forge.  Its not on the main road, but just a block off.  The grill front yard is full of apple trees.  There are a couple of shops around that I would liked to have checked out, but we had to get to Dollywood.