Nashville Tennessee to Lexington Kentucky

Cloudy day. Early departure. We've modified our return route. The planned Smoky Mountain Route 441 is totally blocked by a large landslide and will not open until mid May. Bummer.

So we're now thinking of heading northeast through West Virginia, central Pennsylvania and up through New
York. Maybe even visit Vermont before heading south to Connecticut and then the return to Cape Cod. We'll see.

Today we were excited to see what northern Tennessee and Kentucky held for us to discover. Neither of us had ever visited these two states.

Regrettably the non-interstate routes we chose to drive turned out to be little more than 60% ugly strip malls. Pretty unbelievable considering we covered some 260 miles. What wasn't a retail outlet was a fast food joint. Occasional areas of open country were not unique.

Most all the pictures posted today are fill shots from previous locals. The two pictures taken early this morning are of the Parthenon reproduction in Nashville.