{"id":143,"date":"2017-04-21T11:26:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T11:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2017\/?p=143"},"modified":"2017-04-21T11:26:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T11:26:44","slug":"day-nine-morristown-tn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2017\/day-nine-morristown-tn\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Nine – Morristown, TN"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you happened to be watching my progress today (you can do that by clicking the SPOT link on the web page) you might have thought, what the heck is he doing.\u00a0 It looks kinda like I was taking the Great Circle Route<\/a> between Nashville and Morristown.\u00a0 However, if you were watching my track and comparing that with a weather radar map of the area, you would have seen that I was actually dodging the rain.\u00a0 What I’m doing, rather successfully, is staying between two lines of moving thunderstorms.\u00a0 Kinda like being in the trough between two wave crests.\u00a0 The roads I rode on today were most often wet, but I never got rained on, not even a drop.\u00a0 I have to be careful though because hubris is rewarded with failure, and I had enough of that last year.\u00a0 My 2016 Florida rain experience is indelibly burned into my brain.<\/p>\n

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You’ve likely heard of this place but don’t really remember anything about it.\u00a0 The Cumberland Gap<\/b> is a narrow pass through the long ridge of the Cumberland Mountains, within the Appalachian Mountains.\u00a0 Famous in American colonial history as a key passageway through the lower central Appalachians.\u00a0 Long used by Native Americans (Cherokee out here), the Cumberland Gap was brought to the attention of settlers in 1750.\u00a0 The path was explored by a team of frontiersmen led by Daniel Boone, making it accessible to thousands of pioneers who used it to journey into the western frontiers of Kentucky and Tennessee.<\/p>\n

I remembered “some” of that and thought – Hey, it would be cool to go through the Cumberland Gap – so I did.\u00a0 I’d be lying if I said it was anything other than uneventful.\u00a0 These days you go don’t go through the Cumberland Gap, you go through the Cumberland Gap Tunnel, and the clouds were so low that seeing that it was actually a “gap” wasn’t possible.\u00a0 It is a long tunnel though (4,600 feet) and one of only two tunnels that cross state lines (Kentucky into Tennessee).<\/p>\n

About 15 miles on the other side of the tunnel, was this overlook.\u00a0 Scenery is a little tough to come by out here.\u00a0 With all the trees everywhere – you can’t see the forest.\u00a0 I think there’s some kinda saying about that…..\"\"<\/a>That’s the reservoir you see in the background here is Cherokee Lake.\u00a0 You can click on the picture to see the full size version.<\/p>\n

\"\"I’m leaving you with a rather short post from a mostly riding day.\u00a0 I did stop for a lunch in Corbin, Kentucky at the Col Sanders KFC Museum.\u00a0 This is the town where he built his first restaurant, complete with a hotel.\u00a0 However, that short story and this ceramic statue is about the only thing they’ve got going on at the “museum.”\u00a0 It was like Col Sanders himself was telling me – “Eat your lunch and get back on your motorcycle, there’s nothing to see here.”\u00a0 And that’s exactly what I did.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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