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if you have any hotel or food recommendations for knoxville, please let me know.

i’m not exactly an expert on knoxville now, but my travel advice would be threefold:

1) get a GOOD map. knoxville is like the bermuda triangle for mapquest, and locals have the charming tendency to give directions like, “go up the road a spell and turn where the old Kroger’s used to be.”

2) the marriott hotel was lovely, if somewhat eclectic in its architectural style. also, a fun factoid is that a Tomato Head, located in the Market Square downtown.

enjoy!