"The Trail of the Lonesome Pine"

I'm afraid not many photo's were taken today, we getting to the stage that the landscape is not changing that much, once you've seen one tree in fall, well enough said....

We are now into a routine and are on the road about 09:00, no planed stops on the way today so decide to go via the new Grand Ole Opry in Opryland. This is on the outskirts of Nashville but by all accounts well worth a look, like most things we've found on this trip they've not done things by halves, its huge....
Can't do this on an empty stomach, so decide to try a Cracker Barrel, seen plenty of these on our trip so far but never been tempted.
First impressions, a Western styled Little Chef on speed, seated very quickly, coffee and water as we are sitting down. The only downside is the selection of food, not to our taste, Biscuit, Gravy, Grits, patty sausage and casseroled Hash Browns !!! Only the eggs were to our liking.
Though the other day, we did see one women have fruit for breakfast, not bad but she also ordered a glass of red wine !!! We saw her later on in the Country Music Museum having a late lunch, you guessed it with a glass of Red wine, everyone to there own...
We met with two couples from the UK in the Cracker Barrel who had brought their own Tea bags with them and trying to get boiling water from the waitress. She said she could get hot water, I would have stuck with coffee, everyone knows you need boiling water to scald the leafs to get a good cup of tea, but they were happy with hot water....
They are staying at the Opry Hotel, and say we would need to give it at least an hour to take in a small part of it. We decide we haven't got time by time we finished breakfast and chatting, we will catch it on our next visit, but on a positive, we come across another TV favourite....

A 1969 Dodge Charger "The General Lee"

The actor who played Cooter (Ben Jones) has opened a shop / museum to them "Good Ole Boys", what a find...

As I said, not many photo's taken today, so are few of my favourite things...

A Pig (Honda CX 500), those teenage years...

Ali will probably tell me off now...

Those from Didcot will understand this one.

We stop at another first for us, a Ruby Tuesday's, excellent salad, we have missed this on our trip, will be be coming to one of these again...

Well a little reflection, tomorrow we will drive into Washington, not quite on the east coast but close enough, and the end of our driving part of the trip, estimate we will have traveled just short of 4,000 miles in 15 days. We will have a few days in Washington before catching a train to New York, a couple of days there before flying home.