It's so. . . green!
Once we recover from the Natural Bridge fiasco, we're rolling again, and we make for Tennessee.
Which is really, really beautiful. Seriously. Everything is green, rolling hills, rivers, mountains -- I had no idea it was so gorgeous. Way to go, Tennessee. You get an A+ for scenery.
We're approaching Knoxville AND approaching dinner time. What a happy coincidence! So we exit the highway and head for the University of Tenenssee, figuring this might be a good place to find some cute and funky dinner.
And find it we did. After driving past the women's basketball hall of fame (with a HUGE basketball out in front of it) and lots of pretty river, we spy a big building with a psychadelic sign: The Mellow Mushroom. Whatever it was, we wanted it. Chow time, ladies.
It turned out to be a pizza parlor. A YUMMY pizza parlor. We ordered a "Mega-Veggie" pizza, with SDTs, spinach, onions, green peppers, shrooms, tomatoes, broccoli, feta, artichoke hearts, tofu (YES!), and, much to Liz's chagrin, banana peppers and olives. It just couldn't get much better than that. Man. I'm getting hungry just thinking about it, and I just ate. (Amusingly, the menu offers free delivery on orders $100 or more. I'm probably not quite that hungry.)
Over dinner, we decided that we would press on a little further that night; why not? Looking at the map, we chose Cooksville, TN as our place to stop for the night. I called a Super-8 Motel and got a decent-sounding rate. We drove off into the night, catching some fireflies on our windshield. Luciferase. That's the enzyme those suckers make that causes them to glow. Though to me, it sounds like an enzyme that should disolve Satan.
Tomorrow, hear all about why the Super8 was special and why you should always ask for a discount!
Which is really, really beautiful. Seriously. Everything is green, rolling hills, rivers, mountains -- I had no idea it was so gorgeous. Way to go, Tennessee. You get an A+ for scenery.
We're approaching Knoxville AND approaching dinner time. What a happy coincidence! So we exit the highway and head for the University of Tenenssee, figuring this might be a good place to find some cute and funky dinner.
And find it we did. After driving past the women's basketball hall of fame (with a HUGE basketball out in front of it) and lots of pretty river, we spy a big building with a psychadelic sign: The Mellow Mushroom. Whatever it was, we wanted it. Chow time, ladies.It turned out to be a pizza parlor. A YUMMY pizza parlor. We ordered a "Mega-Veggie" pizza, with SDTs, spinach, onions, green peppers, shrooms, tomatoes, broccoli, feta, artichoke hearts, tofu (YES!), and, much to Liz's chagrin, banana peppers and olives. It just couldn't get much better than that. Man. I'm getting hungry just thinking about it, and I just ate. (Amusingly, the menu offers free delivery on orders $100 or more. I'm probably not quite that hungry.)
Over dinner, we decided that we would press on a little further that night; why not? Looking at the map, we chose Cooksville, TN as our place to stop for the night. I called a Super-8 Motel and got a decent-sounding rate. We drove off into the night, catching some fireflies on our windshield. Luciferase. That's the enzyme those suckers make that causes them to glow. Though to me, it sounds like an enzyme that should disolve Satan.
Tomorrow, hear all about why the Super8 was special and why you should always ask for a discount!
posted by Amy at 9:58 PM
3 Comments:
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i misread part of this post..
somehow STDs on a pizza doesn't sound that appetizing.
reexamining it i realized what was actually typed there, and it does sound like good pizza :)
ah, but it was not a pie with bling. . no, EXTRA bling. That would have been truly amazing
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