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I left Hocking Hills
and Thunder Ridge Cabins B&B
at about 11 a.m. on Memorial Day, 2022, and took the
six-hour, 350-mile trek to
Knoxville, Tennessee,
first, for installment #2 of Spring
Vacation
2022: Zoo Knoxville,
which was the early part of the next day, May 31. On the
30th, I got to my hotel somewhere around 6 p.m., then spent
the evening there just chilling. If I remember, I watched
some TV, don't ask me what I watched. Even though I had packed
music stuff ‐‐ the
Giannini acoustic bass,
the M-Audio Oxygen 61 61-key Keyboard,
the Tascam eight-track digital recorder
‐‐ I still pulled nothing out, I still
did not work on any music.
I spent mid-morning into early afternoon at the zoo. It's
a decent zoo, and I enjoyed myself, and I don't consider
the $33.45 total for entry and parking a waste. Zoo
Knoxville doesn't measure up to
the Cincinnati Zoo,
the Columbus Zoo,
or the Lincoln Park Zoo,
and it really can't live up to
The Wilds,
but that's a tall order, even for these other zoos. It's
a smaller zoo than these others mentioned, but it has a
nice array of animals, and it meets my important criteria
for a zoo of having elephants. Plus, there was the wonderful
surprise of armadillos, which turned out to be quite entertaining.
Check out the video below I captured of one of them amusing
itself. All in all it was a good kick-off to a day that would
end with me and a living rock-&-roll legend, well, me
and him and twenty-plus thousand other people.
As is almost always the case, some of my photos, taken with
my phone, didn't turn out well enough to post here
‐‐ (someday I'll get myself a
DSLR Camera
with some good zoom lenses) ‐‐ so the photo
album here isn't as complete as it could have been. But,
here's what was salvageable:
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