Day 7: to Morganfield



Day 6: 64 mi

Riding the Land between the Lakes was blissful, with the exception of the saddle I’m using.  Not a good fit for me.  It’s very hard & uncomfortable.

2 nights in a row without Emily’s food for dinner.  She is a wonderful cook who makes food to everyone’s peculiar tastes & diets.  She is pretty amazing.

Rest Day





A much needed day of rest.

The Lodge at Paris Landing State Park. Very nice…for a state park.  It was built after the work on the Tennessee River in the 1940's.  But the 4 story resort/hotel looks new. The dam created the Kentucky Lake & a water world for Tennessee and south Kentucky.  Boating & touristy water fun on a huge lake.  The resort has the Lodge, camping & cabins as well as golf & hiking trails.

I went to town (Murray, KY & picked up a sandwich for dinner today & tomorrow's breakfast.  The best places don't necessarily have the best food.

JoAnn

 "It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle." ~Ernest Hemingway

Day 4: Hurricane Mills to Buchanan



52.8

mi

3,459

ft

4:44

hr

Looking across the horizon the trees are even so you assume the terrain must be flat.  It's not flat. Lots of muscle building rollers.

JoAnn

Day 3: Parsons to Hurricane Mills



60.1

mi

2,755

ft

5:07

hr

Distance is getting longer each day.

Hurricane Mills is the home of Loretta Lynn. A restaurant with her name is closed, of course.

Finished before the thunder and lightning that interrupt the cooks plans so she had to go buy pizza. 

I had a great salad.

JoAnn

Breakfast

What we have a lousy hotel and a minimalist breakfast our cook provides steel cut oats with raisins and walnuts. Even the best hotels don't do that and the oats are often instant. So I guess I have to be grateful for an occasional lousy cheap hotel.

JoAnn

Best breakfast



Day 2: Savannah to Parsons TN

47 mi. Deerfield Inn

UGRR—-Day 1

Day 1: Counce to Savanna TN
41.4 mi
I missed the tour first day. 79 mi and lots of rain & stormy, so I'm grateful I missed it.
So I'm keeping track here of days I ride.

Today included Shiloh National Historic Site. Commemorating lots of battles during the ciivil war. Some of the signs had exact times for battles like 10:00 to 1:00 pm on…
Wars are so crazy.