Due to my ongoing anxiety and depression, I was terrified when my friend asked me to go with her to Nashville for the annual Bash on Broadway for New Years Eve. I really wanted to see Chris Stapleton and attempt to get over my fears, even if only for a day. So I said screw it, I have nothing to lose so I went with her and it was the most fun that I have had in a long time. They shut down Broadway street and had it all closed off for the people and food and drink vendors. I didn't know how many people where there until after but it was so crowded that I knew it had to be a lot. On the news the next morning it was reported that 150,000 people were there and I was one of them. It was so much fun, everyone was so nice and I didn't get robbed or murdered so that's pretty awesome. With that many people, I expected something bad to happen but nothing did. It was a peaceful event with no craziness, no drunks, I mean there were plenty of drunks but no idiots, and everyone having a good time. I mean we were all drunk but everyone became friends for the night and there was no fighting, no shootings. I rang in the new year in my favorite Nashville bar, Honky Tonk Central. Everyone sits together and gets to know each other. You come in alone and leave with friends, it's amazing how cool and chill the people of Nashville are. I was getting out drank by a sixty year old calling me a wuss. It was great. I would love to plan a trip every new year because I have never had more fun with stranger and I came home with friends. I must include this as well. I am not a big country music fan so I was expecting Nashville to be all cowboy boots and yee haws, but I couldn't have been more wrong. They have everything there, it's not the country version of L.A (Like I have heard it compared). It is the Music City of America, all music not just country. I loved every second of my time in Nashville and I still have to go back and do the things that I didn't have enough time to do the first two times. Here are some of my favorite places and pictures that I took while I was there.
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| Greatest bar in Nashville, well one of them. |
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| The stage from the front. |
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| The closing of Broadway. |
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| 150,000 people crammed in one area on Broadway. |
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| Chris Stapleton on the big screen. |
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| The AT&T building. AKA The Batman Building. |
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| These steps lead to the second level at Honky Tonk Central. Not fun after drinking. ;) |
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| The beautiful original pews at The Ryman Auditorium |
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My pointy toed shit kicker and the Broadway street tile thingy.
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