Tuesday 4 April 2017

Nashville March 17-24, 2017

The last of our trips for awhile.  We met Barb and JP and Lil and Rene in Nashville.  We spent most of our time at the Nashville Palace drinking beer, eating fried bologna sandwiches and succotash and listening to great country music.  We wen to the Grand Ole Opry twice.  We saw:  Jeannie Sealy, Ryan Kinder, Mike Snider, The Whites, Holly Williams, T Graham Brown, Connie Smith, Jesse McReynolds, Wade Hayes, Riders in the Sky, Natalie Hemby (she has written some great songs for others), the O'Connor Band, Luke Combs, Kristian Bush (From Sugarland), Smithfield, Chris Janson (amazing) Ricky Skaggs and Trace Adkins.  Front row for both shows.  Trace sang a song about getting old and at the end he pointed to me and said "You know what I mean".  We also went to Memphis (about 4 hours) to visit Graceland.  It was great to see, but the house is actually quite small (smaller than our house).  The memorabilia is now housed in a brand new plaza across the street.  Great trip.  One of my favourites.

San Diego March 8-12, 2017

Jan and I went to San Diego for a Brendon Burchard conference.  Mostly conference again but we enjoyed some Mexican food downtown and went for walks along the seawall each morning.  The conference was fantastic - very rejuvenating.

Austin, Texas March 2-5, 2017

Jan, Robyn, Scarlett, Randi and I went to Austin to attend our Mastermind conference.  It was mostly business but had great BBQ at Coopers (brisket, sausage, ribs, peach cobbler) and spent an evening listening to music downtown.