We had to go to Indiana for an Unnamed Family Obligation, so decided to stop in Nashville for a couple days on the way up.
Monday: drive to Nashville
stopped in Trenton GA on way up for lunch and car charge
Nashville: Ryman tour (and stage photo!)
Frist Art Museum
Robert’s Western World
Tuesday: Nashville
Opryland and (newer) Grand Ole Opry, all terrible
Parthenon
weird ghost kitchen lunch
Tootsie’s
The Listening Room
Wednesday: Nashville then drive to Indianapolis
Johnny Cash Museum
Patsy Cline Museum
National Corvette Museum (20 minute charging stop)
Kentucky Stonehenge
Oscar Getz Whiskey Museum
Heaven Hill distillery (and huge rickhouses everywhere)
Thursday: Indianapolis then points south
historic winter storm, with extreme cold, was approaching, so we upended our original plans
quick drive around Indianapolis, including diminutive steam clock
Franklin IN for family business
POW Chapel at Camp Atterbury
Bloomington: Trojan Horse, Garret driveby
Battery Innovation Center and charging fail
limping south to make it to next station in Kentucky and overnight stay
Jasper: Providence Home geode grotto
Jasper: Schnitzelbank German restaurant, three hour stay while charging
overtaken by cold front (40 deg to 10 deg within two hours), which worsened range problem
overnighted in southern Indiana instead
Friday: finish drive home
wake up to -3 deg cold but fully charged car
four charging stops on way home (being extra conservative in cold)
frozen windshield washer fluid, both in car and at gas stations
Regrets:
Shaker Village
Thomas Merton Hermitage
Goat Milk Stuff
Indianapolis: medical museum, art museum, Broad Ripple neighborhood
Slocum mechanical puzzle collection
Birdhouse paradise