Rides Roads and Ronman

Everyone knows that the most important meal of the day is breakfast.  Well what could be more important than a good breakfast before a ride?  That’s why we met at Kym and Bev’s  to get this great day started.  Should you ever get to LaVergne be sure to check them out.  Don’t show up too late though.  Their hours are Monday through Friday 7 am till 2 pm and Saturday 7 am till Noon.

This small group of friends headed east after enjoying our breakfast.  We took Jefferson Pike out of Smyrna over to Hwy 96 up to Hwy 70 at Liberty.  Going east on 70 we rode up to Sparta where we picked up Hwy 84.  Let me tell ya this is one NICE scooter road.  Curves galore along the Calf Killer river.  We wound our way up the tree covered route to Monterey.  Here we picked up Hwy 62 east over to US 127 north.  Just outside of Jamestown we picked up another great scooter road, Hwy 52.  Let me take a minute to say both 84 and 52 are MUST RIDE roads if you are ever anywhere near here.

Soon we were entering Historic Rugby.  Rugby is said to be the most well-preserved historic English village in America.  This once vibrant utopia hasn’t changed much in the past 120 or so years.  You can take a small tour of the library, church and one of the original homes.  Take the time to view the movie in the visitor’s center to get the entire story of this amazing and enchanting place. I like combining more than one of my hobbies at a time.  Geocaching has become an addiction with me.  So I loaded up some caches on my GPSr and soon we were finding them.  Here is a picture of Paul with his first Geocache. On the way to another Geocache we happened upon some ripe Mulberries.  Needless to say the caching came to an end.We enjoyed some of the fantastic back roads on the Cumberland Plateau as you can see of these next couple of photographs.  First Dennis leads the way and then here comes the rest of the group.  Get out and enjoy some of the beautiful things near you.  Ride, geocache, learn history and enjoy time spent with your friends.

Ride Safe

Ronman