Here I am somewhere between the checkin desk and my room. Looking for a native guide to help me.
Ok, so I´m not Alice. But I am lost in Opryland. Specifically, the Gaylord Opryland hotel, resort, and convention center.
I´ve been in some big hotels before. Casinos in Reno, Resorts in Texas and a few other places but this one takes the prize for me. Casinos are bigger but they tend to be vertical arrangements. 5000 rooms stacked on top of a gaming floor. Here, nothing is higher than 6 stories but it is spread over half of Tennessee. Later I will be posting a transcription of the directions they gave me to get from the front desk to my room. Suffice to say I´ve driven halfway across the country before with fewer turns.
I´ve been here a whole day now with nothing to do but walk around and see things and its not enough. I haven´t seen the front desk since checking in and I may need a native guide when its time to leave because I´m not sure I can find it again. It was a 10 minute walk from my room to anything else and short of a GPS tracker there is no way to find the shortest route. The whole thing is built on curves and obfuscation.
All that aside, it is a fairly neat place to explore. Lots of greenery and sites to see. I tried out the pool and fitness center last night and both are excellent. The food is good and only overpriced by a factor of 2 and the staff is always helpful no matter how many times they get asked ¨How do I get to the Cascades from here?¨. The room is pleasant and the TV is a big flat screen. All in all, its much better than a kick in the shorts.
Since I´m writing all this from the Nokia tablet I will have a post on that later on in the trip. Lots of things to report on and noone to talk to here about how bizzare this all is. The conference begins later this afternoon but won´t really get underway until Teusday so until then, the blog is about the only place I have to give voice to what´s hapening.
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