I’ve had two issues come up a few times when working with models travelling through the state. Both have happened a few times of late so two tips when traveling TN from east to west or vice versa.
TN is a large state east to west compared to north to south. It will take you about nine hours to drive from the southwest corner in Memphis to the northeast corner at Bristol. For comparison in that same nine hours from the northeast corner in Bristol you could nearly drive to Philadelphia or drive to Jacksonville, FL with time to stop for a meal. I live about an hour from the northeast corner of the state meaning that I’m (rounding up) about an hour from Knoxville, an hour and a half from Asheville (if you’re coming from North Carolina), and three and a half hours from Nashville.
Looking at the map will tell you the above, but less well known is that Tennessee has two time zones. The western two thirds of the state lies in Central Time which is the same time zone as Chicago. The cities of Nashville and Memphis lie here. The remaining portion of the state is in Eastern Time just like New York and Atlanta. The Eastern Time zone includes Chattanooga and Knoxville along with me. So if you’re driving here from Nashville, it will be an hour later that the three and a half hour distance will indicate before you get here. On the bright side driving from here to Nashville you’ll end up getting there in only two and a half hours on the clock.
Image above from recent shoot with Nyxon partly spent playing around with gloves. She had no problem with time zones or the size of the state and was right on time.