2013 Road Trip: Nashville Zoo

Posted May 17, 2013, 12:27 p.m.

Melissa and I left Tuesday on a road trip to Oklahoma for some family events—one of my cousins is graduating high school and another is getting married. We took three days making the trip out, spending Tuesday night in Nashville, Tennessee, and Wednesday night in Memphis. We arrived safely here in Norman, Oklahoma, late Thursday evening after a total of 1,345.2 miles in my trusty Subaru.

Since the trip from Nashville to Memphis was only a few hours long, we had some time to kill on Wednesday. I wanted to go check out the sights around Nashville and get a feel for the place. So Melissa decided we would go do the most unique thing Nashville had to offer, something we couldn’t do in any other city in America. We went to the zoo.

Not exactly what I had in mind, but we had a good time anyway. Read on for a bunch of animal photos.

I am!

Mysterious Device

Bug Warzone

Misleading

Entrance

Cute

Melissamobile

Don’t Throw Money

Hyacinth Macaw

Bird

Strap

Empty

Find the Siamang

Siamang Gibbon

Siamang Gibbon

Meercat Says Hi

Meercat on Rock

Meercat Wood

Meercat Watchers

Saddle-Billed Stork

Rhinoceros Iguana

Lined Seahorse

Trinidad Cock Roaches

Cuban False Chameleon

Giant Cuban Anole

Chameleon Friends

Haitian Giant Anole

Yoga

Spiny-Tailed Iguana

Desert Tortoise

Eastern Diamondback

Lance-Headed Rattlesnake

Collared Lizard

Copperhead

Black Snake

Tiger Salamanders

Blanchard’s Milksnake

Eastern Collared Lizard

Albino Weird Fish

Razorback Musk Turtle

Spaz

Emerald Tree Boa

Anaconda

Waxing Monkey Frog

Horned Frog

Poison Arrow Frog

Log Lump

Dangle Tail

Spikey

Back to Back

Relax

Turtle

Spying

Sucking

Pit Viper

Tarantula

Eyelash Viper

Mini Frog

Golden Frog

Poison Arrow Frog

Poison Arrow Frog

Ugly

Argentine Red Tegu

Birds

Nature

Bengal Tiger

‘Gator

Underwater

Bamboo

Vandalism

Don’t Be Koi

Clouded Leopard

Red Pandas Relaxing

Lemur Pile

Cassowary

Monolith

Discarded

Crested Screamers

Flamingos

Drink and Watch

Down Up Down

Thirsty

Strutting

Standing

Tiff

Syncronized

Pretzels

Fight!

Zebras

Eland

Hiding Ostrich

Grazing

Helicopter Bird

Saddle-Billed Stork

Going to Sleep

Head Down

Tasty Giraffe?

Asian!

Do Not Enter

Photographer

Bird

Lorikeet

Lorikeets

Chillin’

Hiya

Climbing

Squawk

Look Back

Tilty Head

Backside

Odd Bird

African Elephant

Red River Hogs

Itchy Butt

Elephant

Giraffes

Still Giraffes

Space Helmet

Lantern

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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