Jamie Thingelstad

Travel

Detailed travel logs and trip journals live here. Expect day‑by‑day itineraries (e.g., our Switzerland & Italy trip) with weather notes, meals and family anecdotes, plus posts on museum visits, road‑trips and cruises.

We stopped into Goo Goo Chocolate and took the Taste of Goo Goo class where we all got to make our own Goo Goo Cluster by hand. I didn’t know any of the history of Goo Goo Clusters but they were the very first candy with more than one ingredient! The first candy bar!

Four people wearing Goo Goo Chocolate Co aprons and blue gloves pose at a stainless steel workbench with handmade Goo Goo Clusters on trays. Four people in aprons posing in front of a What A Cluster Goo Goo Nashville Tennessee mural, holding branded signs and props.

Ryman Auditorium

We visited the Ryman Auditorium and saw the birthplace of country and bluegrass music. It seems fitting that the Ryman was originally built as a tabernacle, because walking around it and thinking of all the amazing performances that have been there felt nearly spiritual. 🎶

Red brick Victorian Gothic concert hall at dusk with arched windows and triangular gable, surrounded by Nashville skyscrapers Empty curved wooden pew seating surrounds a hardwood stage where a few people stand near the front apron under stage lights Empty wooden pew seating in a historic curved auditorium with arched windows and a chandelier overhead View from the stage looking out at the empty wooden pew seating and ornate balcony of the historic 1892 auditorium

We’re in Nashville so of course we should go to the Wildhorse Saloon and learn how to do the Boot Scoot ’n Shuffle! We all took their complimentary class together and were scootin’ and shufflin’ with the best of them. Mazie was a natural!

Crowd line dancing at Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville with Steven Metz band performing on a lit stage behind them