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We have done three trips to Nashville in the past three years, all of them in November/December and all of them basically just to see live concerts. I tell people I love Nashville and it’s absolutely true, although it’s basically with the caveat that I’ve seen maybe 5% of Nashville (downtown and the area around Grand Ole Opry) So the tourist parts of Nashville are quite fun. The rest of the city that people actually live in? I have no idea. But that’s not the point. Our first Nashville trip was the result of a couple of things - a variety of people we know saying how much fun they had in Nashville and we should go, and Food Network celebrity chef Maneet Chauhan having restaurants in the city. So we booked ourselves a trip to Nashville, made reservations at The Mockingbird, and I also bought ourselves tickets to a charity dinner that Maneet was holding when we were there in the hopes we would meet her. Which we did. She’s absolutely lovely. We also did our first trip to the Grand Ole Op...

Apparently, I have actual fan(s) who have missed my travel blogs. So in the interest of keeping my customer(s) happy, I will attempt to do more travel blogs as I travel (and maybe even do some retrospective ones of trips I did not blog about). My wife and I are trying something different this spring when it comes to camping. Instead of just doing weekends, we’re hitting up a nearby provincial campground for some Wednesday-Sunday camping while I commute to and from the office on the work days. I was a little concerned that the length of the commute (at least an hour both ways, depending on traffic) would put a damper on the whole thing. But, really, it’s been fine. And even though the cut our first version of this short in (correct) anticipation of rain and came home Saturday instead of Sunday, it was quite fun. My wife stays at the campground during the day and goes on hikes and bakes and reads and I go to work and then come “home” and get to enjoy the park and being outside before goi...