Road trippin' across America

My journey across to LA is shaping up to be EPIC!

Faryn and I are driving her hybrid Prius across America, to the tune of Mumford and Sons and the buzz of air con, because it is HOT here!

Stage 1: VIRGINIA
I met Faryn at the airport in Virginia as I left my lovely family as they caught a flight to go back home to England. A big part of me wanted to go with them, but I'm sticking this out.
Faryn and I stayed at her Grandma's in Fairfax, Virginia, and then we hit the road.

Stage 2: VIRGINIA to KNOXVILLE, TENESSEE
A 7 hour drive and 500 miles later we arrived in Knoxville and at our home for the night,  the student digs of Julian and Harry. Exploring the local area showed Knoxville to be a real cool hip town. We ate while watching a free improv comedy show at a bar called The Scruffy Town Hall.

Stage 3: KNOXVILLE to NASHVILLE
A short 3 hour drive, in which we time travelled and gained an hour, and we arrived in Nashville. We stayed at Further Farms which is a pretty hippy community who brought 110 acres of land and are building huge monolithic concrete domes for a big festival they are holding next month. It was incredible! They were all doing serious manual labour, hauling huge bags of concrete around in the crazy heat. But what an amazing place and an incredible vision! I would love to go back in a year or so and see what they have created!
http://www.furtherfarms.com/

Nashville has an insane music scene. we spent the evening in town, walking from bar to bar seeing incredible band after incredible musician. And back at base camp we slept wild in the woods under the not-so-starry-more-sort-of-cloudy sky.

And now it's breakfast on the morning of stage 4 and we are heading to Memphis. Watch this space...