Day 9, May 4, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina

    

 

Thursday

 

Southbound through southern Illinois then crossing the Ohio River into Kentucky, between Metropolis and Paducah...

       

 

Western Kentucky... crossing the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers...

 

       

 

 

 

That pesky black helicopter...

 

Entering Tennessee...

 

Lush Tennessee vegetation and the limestone road cuts...

 

Nashville, Tennessee...

 

     

 

Ryman Auditorium... original home of the Grand Ole Opry... the mother church of country music...

 

Gruhn Guitars...

 

Tootsie's Orchid Lounge...

 

East of Nashville, at Murfreesboro, I stopped to have about 3000 miles worth of road grime pressure washed off Bigfoot...

     

 

 

See Ruby Falls... See Rock City...

 

Tennessee countryside...

 

See Ruby Falls... See Rock City...

 

The western slope of the Appalachian Mountains...

 

See Ruby Falls... See Rock City...

 

       

 

 

 

Limestone and poppies, and crossing the Tennessee River again, west of Chattanooga...

 

See Ruby Falls... See Rock City...

 

       

 

       

 

Entering Chattanooga along the south bank of the Tennessee River...

 

     

 

Eastern Tennessee... Highway 64, approaching North Carolina along the Oconee River...

 

       

 

   

 

 

Crossing the North Carolina state line...

 

 

As I did on last year's Big Drive, I stopped to visit with my Uncle Elmer and Aunt Christine at Blairsville, Georgia, staying the night at Camp Elmer...