27/08/2019
Eight months after marrying, the newlyweds, Becca Tracey and Jesse Hendrix, take a Nashville, TN honeymoon. After getting a tax return, the timing finally felt right, to take a honeymoon. They were house guests of singer songwriter Jan Buckingham. They went to a special show where Jan was introduced at the Country Music Hall of Fame Museum by singer songwriter, Dak Alley, who featured Jan in his new book about famous songwriters. Also performing and introducing a book that night was singer songwriter, Ed Hill, who wrote a memoir of his life as a famous songwriter. The couple loved the show, bought a copy of each featured book to share, and attended the book signing after the show. Becca and Jesse tried three Nashville places to eat: Farm Burger, The Diner, and the BBQ Food Bus at the Grand Ole Opry and they liked their gluten free food. Becca showed Jesse around her old campus, Tennessee State University, a historically black college, and she showed him around Lipscomb University, a Church of Christ University. A man at teacher licensing downtown helped Becca fill out her teacher license paperwork to send off her Tennessee teaching licenses to be renewed for another three years. Becca will need to pass five exams in the next three years to keep her licenses current since she is from out of state. On their last night in town the couple attended the Grand Ole Opry where they saw many famous musicians including Becca’s hair idol, Crystal Gayle, who is one of the first artists Becca was obsessed with during childhood and is probably the reason Becca likes keeping her hair long. Becca’s friend Jan has had two Crystal Gayle cuts and has had her songs cut by many other famous artists as well since Jan has been in the music business for years. Becca and Jan met when they were both teachers at the same MNPS school in Nashville and Jan was Maid of Honor in Becca’s church wedding. To save money during the trip Jesse did a lot of the cooking with groceries he brought along in a cooler and both Becca and Jesse drove from Middleton, Wisconsin to Nashville, Tennessee and back. The couple stopped at least 20 times as they were driving on the honeymoon. Some memorable stops were a hair salon in IL, IL gas stations, KY gas stations, and TN gas stations, and Farren’s Pub & Eatery in IL for some delicious salads. Jesse sent postcards to his grandma, uncle, dad, brother, and nephews because it was Jesse’s first time visiting Nashville. While Jesse does not want to leave Madison, WI because of his band and family he said he liked Nashville, TN enough to consider it in the future as a place to live if he had less Wisconsin ties one day. Becca and Jesse even had a Nashville area photographer take their photos downtown Nashville and they will post the photos on Becca’s Facebook music page in the future. While the honeymoon wasn’t Jesse’s dream location he said Nashville was more fun than he thought it would be. Jesse was impressed that he found Epic bars and grass fed beef jerky at some gas stations along the way & he wished the chain Farm Burger with grass fed beef would come to Madison, WI. Becca was relieved to get her teacher license paperwork handled and was so happy to go to a special songwriter event where her friend Jan was introduced by an author and singer songwriter. Becca and Jesse both hope that their first trip together to Nashville is not their last Nashville trip.
