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We woke up and went to get Coffee at the Cafe DuMonde.  I got a black coffee and split some French donuts.  They were both very good.  We wandered around the area, and I stepped in the Mighty Mississippi.  There were musicians everywhere, and it was nice.  The market by the water was cheesy, and everything around there was over priced, but that was what we expected.  Whitson got an alligator claw back scratcher.  We went to Mothers for lunch and got Po Boy sandwiches and Jambalaya.  The employees there were so lazy, and it can seat so many more people than they let in, but I guess that’s part of the atmosphere.  We wandered around a bit more, and passed the casino.  Mark wanted to spend the rest of the day there, but we hopped on a trolley and went back towards the car.  We decided to make a stop at the graveyard to see Walter, but when we got there, we couldn’t find him.  Larissa eventually asked someone if they knew where he was, and they said that he doesn’t really work here and is a bullshit artist.  So I guess he really was lying to us with his stories, but they were funny.  We still wanted his tour of the place, because we didn’t care about facts, we just wanted to be entertained, and that’s what he did last night.

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We woke up early and went to Walmart to use the bathrooms, and then I saw a McDonalds and got a breakfast there.  I haven’t been awake and near a McDonalds during breakfast hours since I was about 14.  I ate it in the RV, and then started mixing Jack and Cokes, to prepare for the awesomeness that is the Jack Daniels Distillery.  We arrived, and it was a really nice facility.  The visitor’s center was very informative, it showed the old stills and what makes a Tennessee Whiskey.  Our tour guide was possibly the biggest hick on the face of the earth.  He couldn’t have had any job other than a tour guide at “The Plant”.  I took a ton of pictures and was allowed to smell the fermenting corn mash.  It singed the nostrils!  It really did clear up my sinuses, and may be a magical elixir that has yet to be discovered.  It was an awesome place, and the people on our trip were funny.  We weren’t allowed to take pictures indoors, but that didn’t really discourage us from doing so.  In general the only way I can describe it was as a really beautiful location.

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Ryan and I finished connecting the Jeep to the RV in the service road and then went to sleep in the back and woke up somewhere in Virginia.  While I was asleep the highlight was seeing a dead bear on the side of the road in West Virginia or Virginia, so we didn’t miss too much.  We headed down to a Home Depot parking lot near a Walmart outside of Nashville.  We parked there, dropped the Jeep and headed into Nashville.

We went to the Grand Ol Oprey, and took our pictures there.  It wasn’t a really cool place, but is historical I guess.  The people were all dressed up and we met some New Yorkers and joked around with them for a few minutes, then I asked a police officer for directions to the “happening” part of Nashville and what he would recommend doing.  After I reassured him that I was not driving, he gave us directions and told us a cheap place to park.  He also told us where the police would be looking to ticket people, and was a really nice guy.  We headed into town and found some great places.  We ate at the Broadway Brewhouse, and had amazing burgers and ribs.  They had a good selection of beers and they were somewhat reasonably priced, so we had a few pitchers.  I got a few funny t-shirts, and we saw some great street musicians and got video of them, we even found a local doing a dance to the music.  We recorded that, and it’s online now.  There were lots of homeless people also, but they were not on the stretch really.  One guy looked like he was dead, next to some break dancers, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen anything like that.  We also got our pictures taken with a man in a beaver suit, because he was funny.  Our waiter had recommended a good place to get liquor (Frugal McDougal’s) we went there and picked up bottles, I think everybody got one.

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Ethan came and woke me up at about 7am to tell me that we were pouring concrete.  We had to pour a pad for a new home in the park, and do some general maintenance/chores.  It was an interesting day.  I learned another thing I’m not particularly good at, pouring concrete.  I got a little better at it as time went on, but was still just purely mediocre at it.  I’m much better at moving concrete than leveling it .  After pouring the pad, we had to go around and pick up some lawn clippings.  Ethan’s dad drove around a dump truck and we hung on the sides and grabbed bags of leaves and clippings then dumped them at the end.  I was MUCH better at this job.  His dad took us out to breakfast to thank us for the help.  We went to The Block, or the Vineland Produce Auction, and we saw the auction taking place which was cool, I’d never seen an auction happen that way.  The food was really good, and it was a trucker spot for the most part, especially because it was right inside the auction area.

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Today I woke up a little hung-over from Ethan and I going to Kelly’s Korner.  We were there till last call to celebrate my moving into the new apartment (which is awesome!).  I went to the Computer Science reception, and arrived a little bit late.  None of my past professors were there, but I saw a bunch of people from classes and that was nice.  I’d told my parents I wasn’t going to graduation, and I kept my word.  They arrived late to the reception, which was pretty much over, so we grabbed a bit of the leftover food and wandered the Busch campus.  I had to pick up my transcripts so we walked over there, then I decided to take them to the French restaurant Scott and Leighton took me to for my last day at Just Collect.  Once again the food was delicious!

After breakfast/lunch (I refuse to say brunch), we went to my place and Mom helped me pack up some stuff as Jeremy and Dad tossed the roof rack on the Volvo.  They took off and brought a few things home, including my car.  But where I’m going, I won’t need it anymore anyway.  I finished packing up and gave away the Kegerator.  That was a sad moment, but it’s going to the hockey house, so I know it is in a good home; and I attached a few conditions to it, so I can take it back at any point.

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Tags: Graduation,Moving,New Brunswick,Rutgers,RV
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