Tourist With A Blog

A few years back, my parents went to the Balloon Fiesta in New Mexico, and it became a must do on my list. It is very hard to get camping reservations and you have to do it immediately when they are released. I set the time on my calendar and waited for the reservations to open up. Well, I apparently hit pm instead of am when I made the calendar reminder, and the reservations were all snatched up by the time I realized it. I got put on the waiting list instead. This was for the 2020 Fiesta. As it turned out, COVID canceled all reservations.  The next year, I get an email saying that I had 24 hours to accept reservations for the 2021 Fiesta. They had opened up the reservations to everyone that had 2020 reservations and there were enough cancellations that my waiting list spot was given the opening! I jumped on it. We had 2 spots reserved- one for us and one for my parents.    Come October, we hooked up our trailers and headed out to New Mexico. The camping site at t

To take advantage of a long weekend, Chris and I flew to Nashville. It's just an over 3 hour flight from Phoenix and we found non-stop flights through Southwest.  Where We Stayed We took a Lyft from the airport to our hotel after arriving- Hyatt Place Nashville Downtown . I really liked the hotel and the location. You could walk to Broadway, the epicenter of entertainment. But it wasn't so close that you could hear the bands. You did hear the party bikes and buses riding around (which there were a ton of!), but that sound wasn't too bad since we were on the 14th floor.   Lower Broadway I didn't have much of an itinerary for this trip and figured the main scene was Broadway , or "Lower Broad" as the locals call it. A few blocks from the hotel made it an easy walk, but there were also scooters everywhere such as Bird that you could rent, which we did a few times (before having any drinks!). On Lower Broad, there is just bar after bar after bar of entertainment.