There'll be blue birds over.................

Hi everyone

The Blue Bird Cafe in Nashville, where songwriters perform Country and Western, is a great night out and JS organised us a trip on Saturday night to listen to Danny Wells, Tony Mullins, Monty Holmes and Joe West.

The weekend in Nashville was fun and JS took us to The Hermitage, home of Andrew Jackson, President, Cotton Baron and Slave Owner - it was quite something to see a real southern plantation though now gentrified for tourism. Nashville was founded by Revolutionary War General Francis Nash, ancestor of Ogden Nash.

Vanderbilt University where JS is studying law is huge compared with Katie's Uni in California. We met his nice tall blonde girls friend, Megan, from Dallas who is also in the law school.

While in Nashville we realised that we had left Pacific Time, gone through Mountain Time and were in Central time - only Eastern Time left.

Just a quick note back from California - the Colorado River no longer flows into the sea. After the Hoover Dam there are Davis Dam, Packer Dam, Imperial Dam and Laguna Dam all taking water out for irrigation, water supply, hydro power and golf courses in the desert. Man has really destroyed this wonderful river.

While the Blue Birds are in the title we can report that they do really exist in South Dakota and we saw one or two just north of Cactus Flat.

We are now in Eastern Time at Charles and Mary-Ellen's with Lizi and Alan who are here for two days before they go of "leaf peeping" in New England.

Great museums - more in the next blog.

Love to you all

J&C