Some days on the motorcycle are long days due to temperature or weather of traffic. Some days are short due to the same things plus short mileage. Today for me was a long, short mileage day. I started the day with a tough mental attitude due to my own fault. I sometimes expect too much from people, That was the case. I should have learned by now that many people don’t communicate very well even if I expect them too. Sorry – that’s all on me. Since I started the day in a dark place, it really helped that the mileage was short. My traveling buddies make it hard for me to have a really bad day. They are both very supportive. We only went about 140 miles.

We stopped for lunch at Lawrenceburg, Tennessee which is the home of Davy Crockett. It was a typical midwestern small town. On Sunday morning, breakfast was at Square Forty. Not sure why the Forty but it was located on the town square. None of us are big fans of breakfast buffets but there we were. Staff was friendly and the food was good. Across the street was a mural of Davy Crocket (it didn’t look much like Fess Parker who played Davy on TV when I was younger).

After breakfast we took a “parade lap” through Lawrenceburg. That’s my description of us trying to figure out where we’re headed so we end up circling through town to find a route. Keep in mind that we are running 3 different GPS devices, and Google Maps on one phone. We did not get totally lost and finally found the highway to lead us North and East toward Nashville.

Part of the “planned” portion of the route included a few more miles on the Natchez Trace Parkway. We had gone about 30 miles and came across a young woman who was ill while riding her bicycle with her husband. Red has experience handling this type of problem but the young woman refused his assistance. She was most likely dehydrated. I took her picture just so I could mention this in the blog. Everyone should know their limits and be very careful when physically exertion during hot weather. Her husband had ridden off to retrieve their car and there was nothing else we could do so we moved on. Thank you Red for trying to help.

As we came close to Nashville, we decided to stop somewhere for some appetizers and to listen to Indianapolis 500 Qualifications. Mason (expert route planner, and great travel partner) found us a Buffalo Wild Wings (lots of TV’s and sports focused). Traffic was heavy and the motorcycles and us got pretty warm as we inched our way to the restaurant. It was just what I needed and was only a couple of miles from our hotel. Thanks Mason.

We finished some appetizers and made it to the hotel. We even managed to wedge in a gas stop so we’re ready to roll tomorrow. We had some liquid refreshment while sitting in Mason’s room watching qualifications.

Tomorrow will be a long mileage day. I will be pushing close to 400 miles to get home to the Rambling Ranch. Thanks to those that have followed along on another Rambling Adventure. As usual, I’ll wait a couple of days before I publish my final thoughts on our trip. Don’t give up on me.