Grays on Main

Day One

We met in a cafe in downtown Franklin, TN.  Andy had meandered South through Indiana and Kentucky.  Naturally, I got lost on the way up after travelling up TN 111 to TN 8 through McMinnville and Murfreesboro. But I made it only about 20 minutes late.

Andy had graciously saved a parking space across from the restaurant with room for my bike behind his.  It was a great reunion after waiting a year for this tour together.

All ready to go at the ungodly hour of 8:15 AM

Here I am ready to go from our driveway in Dayton.

We left after lunch West on TN 96 to the Natchez Trace Parkway.  Here we are at the start.  The bridge is a famous double-arch bridge of the parkway over Hwy 96.

OK, we are not cut out for 50 MPH on a two-lane parkway with nothing to look at but trees (although we did see a flock of turkeys).  We got bored as we expected; left the Natchez after 20 miles!

East to Columbia, then South to Fayetteville and into Alabama, through Huntsville — that was our route.  We are now thankfully in a nice motel in Arab, Alabama (that’s right–Arab).  Tomorrow we expect to be in Birmingham at the Barber Motorcycle Museum and track.  It was a good day.