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When it comes to writing a song, or planning a trip, some of the best ideas seem to appear out of thin air. Or, from articles and itineraries we’ve already built for you.

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Sometimes the hardest part is just getting started. Here are a few trip ideas to help get you going. For better results, sort them by area or category of interest.

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Male musician sits on a stool playing an acoustic guitar and singing into a microphone on a stage with drums behind.

Spend Summer in Jackson

Street downtown at night with brick buildings, festive lights, clock, and pedestrians walking along a snow-dusted sidewalk.

Choose Middle Tennessee Winter Vacation

Three musicians perform on a small stage; a woman center sings with microphone, two men play guitar, audience seated watching.

Travel like DEK of Hearts

A pair of cyclists bike through the Upper Sequatchie Valley. As they pedal, the mountains of the Sequatchie Valley rise up in the distance. The road is quiet, peaceful. A slight breeze rustles the leaves of a nearby tree, its branches that overhang above the road, providing brief shade.

Cycling Trip in East Tennessee

A small tour boat carrying passengers glides across the still, dark waters of an underground cave lake, its lantern glow illuminating jagged rock formations and stalactites overhead.

Small Towns Near Big Cities

Daytime street view of storefronts along a brick building in Germantown, Nashville, featuring the 'Abednego' shop sign and 'Cavi Medspa' sign, with trimmed shrubs, leafy trees, and parked cars lining the sidewalk.

6 Tennessee Boutiques

History reenactors riding on brown and black horses wear Union uniforms as they ride past a Civil War monument at Shiloh National Military Park in Shiloh TN

History Road Trip Stops

Signboard for White Squirrel Winery and Lodge along a dirt path with trees and a wooden building in a rural setting.

Sips and Sights These Tennessee Wineries

Painted white and standing tall, A place where folks can find it all, Root beer floats and pocket knives, A meat-and-three and bluegrass nights, They don’t make ‘em anymore, Like the T.B. Sutton Store. Written about the T.B. Sutton General Store in Granville, Tennessee.

Promised Land Trail

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