Travel Advice and Tips for Nashville

We'll start putting some travel tips and advice on here again for you all but if you have any questions or problems, please email me and I will get the answer for you or offer suggestions depending on your need.

CAO "Lady Liberty" Motorcycle Event at UPtown's Smoke Shop today

CAO has teamed up with Sucker Punch Sally's to create "Lady Liberty," the bobber-style swinger bike inspired by the CAO America brand and adorned with the mantra, “Free To Ride—Free To Smoke.” The bike will tour the United States and ultimately be given away to one lucky winner. Swing by UPtown's Smoke Shop, 3:00 - 7:00 p.m., in Nashville to enter for a chance to win!

For more information, please call (615) 292-6866.

Also, visit the CAO Cigar website http://www.caocigars.com/

My "Good Life" by Joe

The good life is being able to retire at 40 and then coach your sons team to the little league world series and win it. Afterwards taking two months to drive around the country, visiting different state parks, national parks, amusement parks, going to sporting events and seeing the different stadiums.

It's showing my sons the country they live in and letting them see it with their own eyes instead of just reading about it. Creating lasting memories for the entire family.
~Joe from New York

~~~Joe and his family have now done all this stuff. Congratulations Joe and let that be an inspiration to us all.~~~

Nashville Aficionado- episode 5

Nashville Trivia!!!

Win a "Don't Trash the Nash" canvas shopping bag from Webbspun Ideas. We will pick a winner out of the correct answers received. Now, here is the question...

What former Nashville restaurant shared the same name as a famous Dudley Moore movie? What was the name/title?

Send your answers to corey@webbspunideas.com and put "Nashville Trivia" in the subject line.

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Cordia Harrington, CEO, Nashville Bun Company and husband Tom of Nashville were in attendance at President Bush's farewell speech last night.
Cordia Harrington is the CEO of the Nashville Bun Company, and her husband Tom serves as the company’s Chief Operating Officer. The President visited the Nashville Bun Company on July 19, 2007, at the invitation of Mrs. Harrington, who has earned the nickname “The Bun Lady.” The Nashville Bun Company is one of five companies founded by Cordia Harrington under her management company, The Tennessee Bun Companies.

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Driving around the Nashville Airport ring road to show you how the construction looks as you enter the airport.

This is a rainy day in downtown Nashville.

Driving out of Nashville on a foggy night.

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Movie Time: The History and Trivia Behind Looney Tunes Cartoons
Saturday, January 17

Main Library, 615 Church Street, 862-5800

2:00 pm

Movies@Main features lecturer Gregory Clark, professor of art history at the University of the South, as he discusses how Warner Bros and MGM animators imaginatively remade the story of Little Red Riding Hood in the 1930s and 1940s to reflect the themes and concerns of pre-World War II America (screening not appropriate for young children).

Driving Through Hamburg, Germany

I Wanna Find a Long, Flat Stretch of Highway for These Amazing Saleen Cars

With its "angel wing" doors—and 750 hp engine—the Saleen S7 soars to 60 mph in less than three seconds.



Steve Saleen is obsessed with speed. "Roll into the throttle," the former Bob Bondurant racing school instructor commands me as I navigate a makeshift test track, which consists of the public roads that surround the Saleen automotive company’s headquarters in Irvine, Calif. Heedless that his S7—a certified supercar equipped with 750 hp and no traction control other than the driver’s right foot—is already roaring through the industrial park well over the speed limit, he urges me on: "Faster, faster!"

A Saleen S7 will hit 60 mph in 2.8 seconds from a standstill—while still in first gear. It is capable of traveling a quarter mile in the 10-second range and will achieve 200 mph in another 10 seconds. But as I take a sweeping right-hand turn and press the accelerator deeper, the clutch pedal moves simultaneously toward the floor and—with a clink, and then a clunk—flops backward, smacking my shoeless left foot with the subtlety of a ball-peen hammer. I shift out of first, but the clutch refuses to engage second gear, so I lift my foot just as Saleen is begging for more throttle.



As we soon discover, the pin that held the clutch pedal in place has become dislodged, rendering the transmission inoperable. We coast to a stop, and the ride is over.

"You broke it," Saleen deadpans. "Way to go.

"Exotic supercars are notoriously temperamental, and the American-born Saleen S7 apparently is no exception. The car, which made its production debut in 2002 at 550 hp, gained twin turbochargers in 2005, giving it the additional 200 hp and a total of 700 ft lbs of torque. "But that is only using 6 to 7 pounds of boost pressure," says Saleen. The factory, he notes, offers an aftermarket package that generates 1,035 hp, and the S7’s twin turbos are capable of handling as much as 23 pounds of boost or—theoretically, at least—as much as 2,000 hp.

Read more about these amazing cars in the Robb Report

Sights While Driving Around Nashville

Driving on Interstate 65

Driving North on I-65


That lil truck must have a lot of horsepower, huh?


The Redneck Express...Yeehaa!!!