Saturday we left Allatoona Lake early and arrived at our arrival at our first “Harvest Host” site in Gallatin, TN.  With fairly low traffic congestion and the time change we originally had an arrival time before 11AM!

Harvest Hosts is a program where you can stay at places overnight for free – you are just asked to buy something at their site to support the owner.  We joined the program when we bought the RV, but had never used it.  Our first use was at Trinity Lutheran Church in Gallatin, TN – kinda an odd place for a Harvest Host, but very nice place to stay.  With no hookups we used our generator, stored water and stored waste tanks.  A Trustee of the church was watering the shrubs, and Scott chatted with him and got a tour of the church.

Since we had time we thought we would stop and see a sight or two.  Our first choice was Ruby Caverns, in Chattanooga, which had zip lines that Anthony was excited to try.  We read their website and set our navigation system to the caverns.  Then we saw a billboard encouraging us to get our tickets online – which Scott proceeded to try with his mobile phone.  We found out that the earliest tickets we could get were after 3PM, so we killed that idea.

We arrived at Gallatin early and ate lunch of leftovers, then looked for other places to visit.  Another zip line in Nashville looked good, and was on the way to the Grand Ole Opry, our evening’s planned entertainment!  But they had no tickets available until Sunday…

So we went with our second choice, which was emails and napping until time to leave for our 5PM dinner reservation at Saltwater Steakhouse right across from the Grand Ole Opry.  There were signs everywhere for “Buy 1 pair of boots, get 2 free.”  Anthony couldn’t resist (apparently, neither could Tom the last time he was in the same mall a few years earlier.)  So, after dinner Anthony bought boots for himself, his mom, and his brother.

We were a bit surprised at the crowds in Nashville, and the Opry was almost full.  We discovered it was “CMA Fest” – Country Music Association or something like that.  We had purchased pretty good seats 3 weeks earlier, and everyone enjoyed the show (at least Scott and Tom did.)  There was a comedian telling jokes that played pretty well to 60+ folks – not sure Anthony appreciated the humor as much.

An uneventful ride back to our peaceful “campsite” ended the day.