Nashville Music Trails: Part II The Ryman Auditorium

Nashville Music Trails: Part II ~ The Ryman Auditorium The heartbeat rhythm of Nashville’s music soul finds its breath and life in the spirit of the Ryman Auditorium, where the creaks and echoes of this sacred church auditorium reverberate the sonorous wonder of music – some could argue it is hear the angels whisper sweet […]

Nashville Spotlight: Centennial Park

Nashville Spotlight: Centennial Park. From our sister site – Adele Belle – check out a Backyard Trekker segment on Nashville’s Centennial Park #NashvilletoAsheville #UrbanWild More adventures coming your way on our virtual tour – stay tuned!

Nashville Music Trails: Part I

Journeying deeper into our Nashville to Asheville to virtual road trip into today’s Vagabond Warrior segment we are going to delve into the roots of Nashville’s music scene. Nashville is situated in a geographic confluence of east meets west, north meets south – it is a crossroads of culture – from the Native American cultures […]

48 Hours in Downtown Nashville

Forty-Eight Hours in Downtown Nashville Nashville is a vibrant town with a southern laid back swing, contrasted by the uptempo city beat that never stops moving. As the state capital of Tennessee, a top-ten tourist destination and center of a diverse merging of industry from auto (Nissan is headquartered in Nashville), printing/publishing (Ingram…), music, restaurant […]

Nashville Musings: One night in a CAFE

When I first left my hometown of Raleigh NC for Nashville TN I was a naive dreamer who was chasing down stardust in the neon signs of Broadway living and hoping that my song would be the lyrics deep enough to rise above the sonic boom of countless other talented musicians and dreamers. It was […]

Destination Nashville

Nashville is a crossroads of culture and life. Located on a bend in the Cumberland River amid the rolling hills of Tennessee’s mid-country, the city was founded in 1779 as a Fort Nashborough. The town developed into an important trading post and economic center, becoming the state capital in 1843, after long being the state’s […]

Nashville to Asheville Travel Adventure Series

Over the next month Vagabond Warrior is going an a virtual journey with a series of travel features focused on Nashville to Asheville. This series will be tied into other feature articles on my partner site ‘Adele Belle‘ as we ramble down I-40 and beyond from Nashville and Tennessee time, east to the Blue Ridge […]

Mountains to Cross: Leaning on God, Letting Go – Traveler’s Soul

It has been a week since I left Nashville and it still haunts my dreams with a sweet magnolia scent. I am finally taking time to write down my travel itinerary after the helter-skelter pace of last weekend’s travel and workload with our storage unit, before zooming back to Raleigh for a full week of […]

Vagabond TreK: Crossing Carolina into Tennessee Time

Lost in the woods. I am lost in the narrow space between the forests as the highway winds crisscrossing through Appalachia in the ethereal glow of the Blue Ridge. My heart races in a beat of praise in awe of the peace and beauty of the mountains surrounding me as I travel the bottleneck of […]