I had the greatest plans to blog my trip out to Tennessee for a work convention and a ride with friends afterwards but we all know what they say about best laid plans of mice and men....
So I left home last Sunday and made a beeline to Nashville for a trade show that lasted until Wednesday and then on to ride the backroads of Tennessee with a group of 8 bikes and 13 riders. First part I loved was pulling up to the Omni in downtown after 10 hours on the road and there was a wedding party there fixin to leave in Ferrari's, bet they loved the grungy biker rolling through. After three days of the trade show and out til darn near 3 every morning I headed out to meet up with the crew at Boswell's Harley.
Heading out
After a slight detour by me when I made a turn that nobody else dared after a signal by the leader....
We were back on the road and headed south on 24 and jumped over to 41A for a loading cruise down the backroads on our way to Lynchburg, for a tour of the Jack Daniels distillery. A beverage stop at a small gas station had local entertainment with a lady freaking out on a phone about someone they knew trying to run them off the road. We arrived at Jack Daniels and took the very interesting tour then back on the road as it was a dry county. ;-)
Our motley crew
We headed down a few more backroads towards Winchester when the skies started turning really dark and we knew we couldn't avoid the rain so we pulled into the Oasis Steakhouse for more adult beverages and some grub while we waited out the storm then back on the road for our destination for the night, Chattanooga, and our hotel for the night, the downtown Holiday Inn Express. And they made us park in the hallway despite charging full price for the covered parking, we did get a 50% refund in the morning though.
And so we finally get sat down for dinner by 10, after visiting the bar at the Holiday Inn and Sticky Fingers, at the Taco Mac where the service was meh although it may have had something to do with the Predators losing. I'm pretty sure there were lean tips given at our table. After that we called it a night.
Map of our route
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1EF7UlY8UYjKFET9F9wX0jaRXFQQ&usp=sharing
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