Day 11 - Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Homeward for David and Patty.

Since David and I were just in Chattanooga a couple of years ago for sight-seeing and since no one from our group was going to be coming back to our house (Ted and Wanda were driving straight home from Chattanooga), we decided to come home early. We had breakfast with Ted and Wanda, loaded up the bikes and headed north and northwest. Along the way we discovered a highway we had never taken - TN-111. It is a wonderful highway, cutting through central Tennessee. Some of it is two-lane and some four-lane. It is being widen to four lanes for most of the run through Tennessee. At one time in the morning, the skies looked like rain so based on our past experiences, we pulled over and put on all the rain gear. We rode for almost an hour fully dressed in the slicks until David said he was starting to feel like a baked potato. We pulled over and removed the jackets and then as soon as we crossed into Kentucky, stopped for lunch and took off the rest of the rain gear. By late afternoon we were just about 30 miles from home. We stopped for milk and juice and put them in the cooler and got gas one last time. At about 20 miles from home, it started to rain. We went on. We were ready to be home and we had driven that stretch of road several times in the rain. When you get that close, it is hard to justify stopping for any reason.

Highlights: TN-111; home