Weekend Trip - Clarksville, TN

Since we are going to be leaving the Kentucky/Tennessee area sooner than we had hoped, we decided to do some semi-intense exploring. Over the remainder of this week, I'll be writing up our travels last weekend:

• Today's post: Clarksville, TN
• Coming soon: Nashville, TN
• Coming soon: Mammoth Caves, KY

Clarksville is home to Fort Campbell, which is home to the 101st Airborne Division. The road into town off Highway 24 runs parallel to the main edge of the base, and leads you past what seems to be an unending string of small strip malls. You see many half-vacant sorefronts and buildings. This road eventually leads into downtown Clarksville.

Downtown Clarksville is not a particularly large area, probably only encompassing a 4-6 square block radius at most. We stopped into a local brewpub to eat a snack and try their beer. They had a reasonable mix of brews, but nothing really that stood out as worthwhile of making the trip back to Clarksville. The food wasn't terrible either. All in all, a reasonable expectation of a brewpub. Probably wouldn't not go back there if we had to do it over again.

Walking around downtown Clarksville, we stopped into Blondie's Sandwich and Coffee Shop. It was a pretty standard coffee shop, except for one thing about the coffee cup itself. On the left side of the lid, is an open-close switch. For those of you who have seen that before, that's wonderful. But it was new to us, and we thought it was awesome.



The downtown area is a lot of brick buildings, some of which appear to be extremely old. A plaque near City hall said that the town was founded in 1785, making it almost 230 years young. Prior to leaving town, we drove past Austin Peay State University. Quite a bit more brick buildings, and we could clearly make out which ones appeared to be dormitories.