Never too old to travel!
Just the mention of fall in Knoxville brings to mind football with the Vols and the music of the Pride of the Southland Band. We can hear that music now — strains of the unofficial fight song, “Rocky Top,” being played as the band marches through campus into Neyland Stadium . . . or as […]
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When this week’s travel theme from Ailsa’s blog Where’s My Backpack? appeared in my mailbox, I immediately thought of a fundraiser for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library called The Great Cake Bake, celebrating books and the host of the event: the University of Tennessee. With that in mind, I searched my photo bank, and here are three […]
Read More…So, you might ask, How many times has The Rock on the University of Tennessee campus been painted? And the answer would have to be, No tellin’! The Rock is simply an enormous boulder that’s been moved at least once since we were students at UT but has been been a rock-solid canvas for literally hundreds of students […]
Read More…Well, of course we’re glad it’s photo challenge time. Especially with this theme. As they say around Knoxville, we bleed orange around here. And not just any ol’ orange. This is gen-u-wine University of Tennessee orange. Go Vols! For more entries in this week’s WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge: Orange, click here.
Read More…So, here we are. Big Orange Fans. Delighted that the University of Tennessee Vols made it to the TaxSlayer Bowl on January 2nd, 2015, in Jacksonville, Florida and beat the Iowa Hawkeyes 45 to 28. Go Vols! But in our usual “let’s-see-what-else-we-can-see-along-the way” mode, we decided to cruise the coast a bit from Tybee Island down […]
Read More…Flying all the way from Los Angeles to Knoxville, this University of Tennessee Vol reminded us that even with some rocky seasons of late, fans still fill Neyland Stadium. At capacity, UT can seat 102, 455 — an impressive number in a venue voted Best College Football Stadium by The Sporting News. Big Orange Fans? Ya […]
Read More…If you’re searching for that magic fall color for this week’s Travel theme: Orange (from Where’s My Backpack), look no further than Knoxville, Tennessee, where Big Orange tradition brings out some of the biggest, bestest, party-goin’ fans in the SEC. Orange isn’t just a color here . . . it’s a way of life. When you hear My […]
Read More…Sue’s A Word a Week Challenge this week from her blog A Word in Your Ear is LINES. And since we’re big University of Tennessee Vols fans,we watch intently as the Pride of the Southland Band lines up, marches into the stadium, and performs the circle drills that bring down the house. Before the game, […]
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