Nashville, TN until Campbellsville, KY

We had a great time in Nashville. Our friends, Gloria and Rick, showed us true Southern hospitality. We had a great time with them and we did a lot of sightseeing. We went to Loretta Lynn's ranch. Boy, was that a big place. A beautiful campground which we wish we would have stayed in instead of the KOA campground we stayed in W. Memphis, AR. We paid much more for staying there then we would have at Loretta Lynn's place and it wasn't nearly as nice. We would highly recommend staying there. She has a museum that is 18000 square feet which has all of her dresses and mementos from her life as well as movies about her life and of some of the important singers she sang with. In the gift store you could buy all kinds of souvenirs -- all of them were autographed by her personally.

We toured the little mine and saw a replica of the house she grew up in. It was very small and meagerly furnished. The plantation house where she originally lived is now a museum as well and the house she presently lives in (part-time) is behind it. It was quite interesting and Gloria was impressed and said she might never have gone there if we hadn't taken her there.
One day we went to the Lane Motor Museum where we saw mostly European automobiles from the past. We even saw a car (a Renault) we used to have in Germany. There were some very unusual cars and motorcycles and motorized bicycles from days gone by. The museum is owned by Jerry Lane who got his first car for Christmas when he was only 12 years old. The only problem was that it came in pieces and he needed to restore it and put it back together. It took him 4 years to finish it and his very first car he drove.
The car seen below is a car that could be driven from the front or the back. Some police man in France had to go up a road and needed to turn around. However the road was so narrow that he had a terrible time doing so. He came up with the idea of making a car that could be driven from both sides.

The picture below is one of the first Harley Davidson motorcycles. When you get too old to pick up one of those heavy Harley's you can always get one of these. Ha, ha!!!

Next we went to Jack Daniels distillery in Lynchburg, TN. Funny thing, they brew all that whiskey but it is located in a "dry" county which means they can't sell any alcohol in that county and the few limited bottles you could buy there could not be opened until you were inside your house or in a "wet" county. We were lucky in that we just got done with our tour when they had to stop giving tours because it started pouring rain and thunder and lightening which didn't quit for over an hour. 

Below is a picture of premixed cola with whiskey which can't be sold in America (don't know exactly the reason why).  Another bottle, Jack Daniels Silver Select Single Barrel, is 100 proof and can only be bought at airports when people fly out of the country. 

While in Lynchburg we also went downtown Lynchburg where one of the interesting things to see was Miss Mary Bobo's boarding house was. It now is a restaurant where you need to make a reservation to be able to eat. It is always full.  The boarding house began in 1908 when the young spinster Miss Mary Bobo took over the historic Salmon Hotel. Miss Bobo died in 1983 just five weeks before her 102nd birthday. She remained sharp-witted and involved in the Boarding house all of her life. 

Finally, we went to the Corvette Museum which was quite interesting as well. They build 8 Corvettes per hour and only when ordered. You can actually watch your Corvette being built, if you choose to do so.  Below is a picture of Gary in one of the Corvettes they let you sit in. We found it hard, at our age, to get in and out of the car. So all we can do now is dream about the car. However, back in the 90s we did get to drive the Corvette Gary's cousin's husband owned. We did enjoy it then.

We are now in Campbellsville, KY where we are working for Amazon.com Will tell more about that in our next blog.