Cruisin Kentucky and Tennesse

On Memorial Day weekend, my wife and I joined and three other couples to take a motorcycle ride to Lexington, Kentucky, then to Bowling Green, Kentucky. The third day we ended up in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and on the fourth day we landed in Bristol, Virginia.

The ride down Rt. 68 in Kentucky was absolutely fascinating. I would recommend it to anyone, scooter (motorcycle) or a car. The route was planned by this trips’ Road Captain, B-O-B (that’s B-O-B spelled backwards). No one really knows how hard it is to be a road captain until you have experienced it, but that’s a story for another day. It was B-O-B’s first try, but he did a fabulous job, except the four and a half hours in Meigs County, but again, that’s for another day. If you ever want to see how the other half lives, ride through Kentucky horse country. You will find absolutely spectacular farms, surrounded by stone walls with gated entries. These went on for miles. The morning we were getting ready to leave Lexington, we talked to a gentleman (a fellow Harley driver) that got to tour one of the farms. He said he was told that stud fee at these farms were anywhere from 10,000 to 90,000 dollars a shot, so to speak. I guess I got into the wrong occupation. I guess I should have started breeding horses when I was young. Let me rephrase that, I guess I should have been a horse breeder. I guess to make absolutely sure there are no misunderstandings, I should say I wish I would have owned one of the horses involved in the process. All kidding aside it was something to see.

After we left Lexington, we turned left on rt. 60. We stopped and saw Martin Castle, and, yes we were still in Kentucky. Well worth the stop (for more info, www.dupontcastle.com).

After that stop we continued on to the Corvette Museum (corvettemuseum.com) in Bowling Green. Two of the guys have Vettes and Harleys; I still say I’m in the wrong business. After leaving there we stayed the night in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Since we were short on time, we had to come back Interstate 40, 81 then 77. Coming through Knoxville on I-40 was a treat. Rain nearly drowned us coming through Charleston, WV. It rained so hard that our road captain had to pull over because his contacts were being washed out. We turned on our flashers and continued home safely. By the way thanks to the guy in the SUV who followed us, turned his flashers on and kept the wolves off our backs (had to be another scooter driver). Next week let’s talk about helmet laws. Yaahhoo!