Keli travels Nashville part 21 May 2015

The next day I was looking for something to do while Melinda was at her conference and was looking through brochures and came across a 

HOME OF THE STARS TOUR...

I am not going to lie I have ALWAYS wanted to go on one of those..

THAT TOUR COST $60.....SIXTY DOLLARS!!!!!

I was picked up the next day at my hotel by my tour bus driver an older man who walked in the breakfast room and loudly proclaimed...

" I am here to pick up Miss Keli Wright" ...

We went to other hotels and picked up other people.. the tour was mostly old, overweight women and overweight couples. 

the brochure said we would see all sorts of peoples homes... I was excited...

after picking everyone up we drove for a long time because it turns out most celebrities live in a town next to Nashville called Brentwood.. which is in one of the richest counties in America..

In between the bus driver making sexist jokes...that nobody laughed at or just telling OLD jokes that I heard YEARS ago.. and passing them off as his own.. we drove by celebrities houses....

I should have known better from living in California.. MOST CELEBRITIES HOUSES YOU CAN NOT SEE FROM THE STREET!!!!! they have tall trees and big fences.. some of the people on the tour were not happy about this..but oh well.. here are some things I learned..in no order..

1. We got to see a big pile of dirt and some bulldozers and such.. ONE DAY Dierks Bentley is going to live there because the house he is living in right now that has x amount of square feet.. well that is not big enough for him and his wife and his three children... all of which this dude knew the names and ages of..

2. We got to see a house that Reese Witherspoon and her husband recently bought and and are planning on renovating.

3. You can see Martina McBride's house from the street.. This dude has her car memorized...He was like Martina is home... there is her red car...! 

4.We went by some dudes house named Charles Kelly that I guess is in the band Lady Antebellum. He said well he is home that is his red Range Rover..but I have not seen his wife in 3 weeks..she drives a silver BMW I have not seen her car in three weeks... .......because it would be impossible for this lady to park in the garage.. or have a job.. or ANYTHING... 

5. Minnie Pearl lived next to the governers mansion.. now a member of The Kings of Leon does..

6. We saw a lot of houses that people that are dead lived in when they were alive.. We saw THREE of George Jones houses..He said his widow now lives in a house an hour from here but it is a big house and I don't know if she can keep that up now that George Jones is dead. I said that I was going to go the George Jones museum but it costed TWENTY DOLLARS to get in.. I said I did meet his widow there though... He said well I guess she was in there counting her money...

7. We saw a house where Hank Williams wife died and Hank Williams Jr. found her.. then someone else died there...maybe Tammy Wynette... and sometimes you can go in that house.. but the bus driver said no way  is he ever gonna go in there.. he feels creepy just driving by it. 

8. Anyone that was rich or had a huge house... or an interesting house.. and lived in the vicenity of the tour was automatically on the tour.. like the owners of Dollar General.. their compound is MASSIVE..

9. Some dude MAYBE from Lady Antebellum has his awards displayed in the front window for us to see... not even kidding you...

10.Ronnie Milsap has a huge brick fence around his massive property.

11. The bus driver also talked a lot about how so many of these people have HUGE YARDS that they then have to keep up with..and well he would not want to have to do that..

12. He also talked about how a lot of them have several garages..  he said that is a good thing cause your kids will just leave all their junk in your garage anyway.... I felt like crawling under the seat then like um... uh I surely don't do THAT... hahahahahh 

13. We saw Dolly Parton's 65 acre property and her house that her wig maker lives in..

14. Kellie Pickler's house is in a neighborhood that you can actually see the house no gate, no fence no nothing.. and this guy was like well... Kellie is home she is a country girl so she drives that big black truck..He said that Kellie Pickler does not like him and one time she was outside on her porch talking on the phone to her cousin ( No idea how he knew that) and that when Kellie saw him she walked right inside.. He said another time Kellie was cleaning windows and when she saw him she got down off the ladder and walked right inside...He said that Kellie's husband ( his name might be Kyle) he said that he will come right out to the tour bus and talk to him.. He was like but he thinks he is a comedian... I THOUGHT UM KINDA LIKE YOU DO!!!!?????

15.He said that a couple of years ago they went by Trace Adkins house and he lived in a house kinda like Kellie Pickler no gate or security. One guy wrote down his address and when the tour was over WENT BACK.. Trace was not home but his wife answered and this guy was like is Trace here? His wife said no.. he said well I will come in and wait and pushed past her.. She called the police....and well they are not allowed to go by Trace Adkins anymore.. and then Trace bought a house in a gated community.

16. He said there were several people that have contacted the tour and said to NOT GO BY THERE HOUSE ... he said he can not tell us who they are..

17. We can't go by Brad Paisley's house he lives way far up on  a mountain.. and you can't get anywhere near it..He said he has a lot of farm animals and stuff for his children both of which he knew the names and ages of to play with.

18. We could not go by Tim and Faith's house same reason to far up and we can not get anywhere near it.. he did say it was for sale though.. only 18 million...my friend Laura is a realator she said if she sold that her COMMISSION would be 350 grand.. I said if I had that... I would be DONE WORKING for the next couple of years..

19. We could go buy Garth and Tricia's house... that they lived in FIVE YEARS AGO...

20 we went by several gated communities..and he told us who lived in them.. some he even told us the street.. like Keith and Nicole live in there 3rd house on the left... or Carrie Underwood and her hockey player husband  Mike Fisher live in there with their new baby and he knew the babies name and birthday... He also showed us how one gated community was not really keeping out anybody.. and pointed out the fence was easily scalable..

21. We went by Taylor Swift's house.. It has a HUGE fence around it and security EVERYWHERE... like EVERYWHERE walking around... driving in golf carts.. He said Taylor needs all this security and FOR WHAT???? Martina and Faith do not do this..you see them picking up their kids and then he told us the schoo their kids went to and what time they go to pick them up and how they do not need any security they go all by themselves... I thought well um most of their fans are older... and less crazy.. Taylor Swift is in her hey day she needs all of that..

22. We drove by another house that Taylor Swift owns... I guess she bought that for her mom but her mom did not like the color so no one is living in it... what a waste.. I would live in that house OR the one that Reese Witherspoon is redoing... It would be a courtesy to them really.. you know so the house would not stand empty..

23. We saw a huge house that is JUST EMPTY they use it for movies and videos like it was in the Taylor Swift Blank Space video.. If you have seen that video you know exactly what house I mean.. it is impressive..

24. We went into downtown Nashville and saw a condo building where Taylor Swift owns a condo and has BOUGHT part of the street parking to park her tour bus.. TAYLOR SWIFT HAS THREE HOUSES IN NASHVILLE... there is such a thing as TOO MUCH MONEY...seriously... 

25. He said Kelly Clarkson also has a condo in that complex but he has not seen her lately since she had her baby, which dude knew the exact day and the babies name..

When my tour was over I COULD have got dropped off downtown..but for some reason I was just EXHAUSTED... I went back to the hotel and slept a couple of hours before I went back out..

In retrospect I wonder If I should have taken another tour Nashville offered...but hey I had an adventure and that was good.

oh and there are not really pictures cause most of the pictures came out looking like this...

 so yeah no pictures..