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Deane and Norm's Motorcycle Trip to Labrador | |
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June 19 - Tupelo, MS to Knoxville, TN - 420 Miles |
| Today was a wonderful riding day. Rick,
Bob, and I rode through parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and
Tennessee! Again we rode on the back roads with many changes of
U.S., State, and County roads and many interesting little communities.
The scenery in all of the states was green and beautiful, but Alabama was the best. We rode across the breadth of the state, through Hamilton, Winston, Cullman, and passed lots of areas of scattered trees, sometimes forested areas, and beautiful small to large pastures with contented cattle grazing away.
Covered Bridges in Alabama?
Then we rode across and alongside the Guntersville reservoir, one of the reservoirs along the Tennessee River. This is a huge and beautiful reservoir, backing up 30 to 40 miles of the river. Bob was most impressed with the huge cooling towers for a nuclear power plant alongside the reservoir. We made another crossing, to ride through a small corner of Georgia, before the last stretch into Knoxville. Deane's GPS setup on the Gold Wing helped us cut diagonally across the big city of Knoxville to find our motel near the Honda Hoot motorcycle rally. There we found Norm, who had ridden down from Vandalia, Ohio. |
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We
stopped at the "largest Natural Bridge East of Colorado", and
enjoyed just looking at a big cave / natural amphitheater associated with
it. While there, the "Good 'Ol Boy" who owned the tourist
business told us
to stop at a nearby "Covered Bridge". It was the
"longest Covered Bridge in Alabama", near Clarkson.
Yes, we found there are still 13 covered bridges that
were used at one time. The one we stopped at had been built
originally in 1904, burned in 1921, and was rebuilt in 1922. It is
not used anymore, but is still kept up as a historical site. We speculated
that it must have been needed because of freezing rain in that area.