While the day before had been great, there were more cars on the Trace than I had expected. Turns out this was likely a combination of the beautiful weather and the weekend because this morning we almost had the road to ourselves.
Like the day before we stopped at almost every historical marker along the way. We both found the burial mounds especially interesting as they have dated them back well over 2000 years.
Another highlight of this morning's ride was when we crossed the Tennessee river. The bridge gives a panoramic view up and down the river which looks like it may still have some barge traffic.
The original plan was to meet at the northern visitors center but when we couldn't find it we called and arranged to stop at a roadside pull-out we had found. It was a little after 1:00 and we had ridden over 36 miles of scenic, but mostly uphill roads and were more than ready for lunch.
Once again putting the bikes on the car, dad moved from saddle to driver's seat and we drove to the Heritage Acres RV Park in Tuscumbia, AL (birthplace of Helen Keller).
For dinner, we headed just up the road to a place called The Old Rocking Chair Restaurant for dinner where the food must have been good because many of the things we asked for they were already out of ;)
In total we covered about 74 miles today (36 by bike, 38 by RV) bringing our trip total to 693 miles.
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