1969 Dart GT convertible cross country road trip 2012: Greek day

We woke up in our fancy hotel beds, and decided to have breakfast at the Parthenon. No, we're not in Athens, we're in Nashville Tennessee. They are home to the world's only replica of the REAL Parthenon. Its story is that Tennessee had its 100th "birthday" in Nashville, the Centennial Exposition in 1897, even though it was a year late. The city built a whole bunch of buildings, all meant to only be temporary and be torn down after the expo. Well, Nashville is known as the Athens of the South, so the city decided their pavilion should be a model of the Parthenon. So the Expo eventually ended, and most of the buildings were torn down. But the people of Nashville had grown to love the Parthenon, so they let it stand. In 1920, however, the building was a mess. The weather had taken its toll on the wood, plaster, and brick structure. The Parthenon was torn down, pieces of it were saved from demolition, and rebuilt.

The Parthenon now houses many pieces of art and of course, a gigantic 42 foot tall statue of the goddess Athena.

We checked out of the hotel, and cruised over to the park where the Parthenon stands, hopped up on the steps, took out our styrofoam container of biscuits, and ate them. It was only a plus that we were in everyone's photos eating our biscuits. We then paid the admission to get inside and walked around for a good hour or so.

Yesterday was hot. Really hot. And we decided to walk around downtown Nashville. We only went into the stores that had air conditioning. We walked around for two hours or so going into lots of nice shops, drinking a bottle of Mello Yello.

I think we both came to a conclusion that it was time to leave when the sweat was pouring off our faces. Yea, we're from Arizona, shouldn't we be used to the heat? NO. It was HUMID. Arizona is NOT humid. And it was REALLY humid. When our faces became Niagara Falls, we hopped in the car and got on the i-40 again, to Memphis, where we had dinner at some supposedly famous place. We got the ribs, and yeah, they were okay, but the best parts were the sides. We also caught some clips of the Olympics, and decided that some sports shouldn't be in the Olympics. Like table tennis, and water polo. It's ping-pong and keep-away.

We hopped in the car again to take some time off of the drive for today, and drove to Little Rock, Arkansauce. We got a nice hotel in a safe area, (if there's a Cadillac and BMW dealer close, it can't be bad) watched some more Olympics, and conked out.

When i woke up, all 14 of my mosquito bites were red, so somehow i must've subconsiously scratched them when i was sleeping. I scratched them some more, and went downstairs to check out their breakfast spread, which was sizeable. We checked out at 9 and have been driving ever since. Just crossed the Oklahoma state line.