We have started the next phase of our summer traveling! After driving 1,937 miles in 4 days we arrived in Bowling Green, Kentucky for our first stop of our journey. We went there to take the factory tour of the Corvette factory that we didn't get to take when we picked up our car in 2013. Problem is along with ourselves there were over 6,000 other cars at the museum! Have you ever seen 6000 Corvettes together at one time? It was an awesome sight, believe me! Every place that had room to park, it was filled. Cars from the 1950's up to and including the new 2014's were there. Blue, white, red, black gray - with stripes, without stripes, with chrome wheels, or aluminum, or black - convertibles, T-tops and half-tops. Our tour was fantastic. Usually a regular tour consists of 15-20 people and 1 guide with no sound assist for their voice so it's very difficult to hear them in a large and noisy factory. Since we picked our car up at the factory last year we were to get a VIP tour which only takes 6-8 people. We actually got a better tour since the van left the museum without us and another couple. They immediately came back with another guide and the four of us had our tour.
The next day we took off to our next stop (which really started this whole 66 trip). We went to Nashville for a Gold Wing (motorcycle) get-together. That is what we started to talk about doing during the beginning of the year, then added the Corvette tour and when I found out that Karl had a bucket list item of driving Route 66 it all came together. Anyways, this second stop was just time to be other Gold Wing riders from all over the US. We stayed at the Opryland Hotel which was a beautiful place with all sorts of Southern charm. We went to the Grand Ol Opry one night and on the General Jackson paddlewheeler showboat on another.
Today we moved towards our third stop and are in Indianapolis on our way to Chicago to start Route 66 on Wednesday. Everyone has asked us how long do we plan on being on it and our honest answer is we really don't know. It is 2400 miles and most people have done it in about 2 weeks. Our goal is just to really take our time and stop to see what we want for as long as we want. We have no plans on where to stop or for how long. This trip is kinda freaking Karl out because he doesn't like to be spontaneous. He wants to know where, when , how, etc. My answer is stop planning for once!
Oh, and for those keeping - we only had one problem when we left on this trip. I had forgotten something at the CA house and we had to go back to get it, but we were only a block away.
Stay tuned!!!
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