Finally a day trip!

  Hooray, we finally took another day trip! I will add some photos later this morning, but right now I want to write out our basic route.

  We started out driving the new full route of Tennessee State Route 840, which recently opened a new stretch to make it a complete half loop around Nashville.

 

We ended at the western terminus near Dickson. Traveling up Hwy 46 through Dickson, we attempted to stop at a historical site a few miles north of town. A historic site called Ruskin, which used to be a commune and includes several older buildings, appears to have been restored as a camp but the grounds were closed and locked. I took a few shots of the main building from the road, but it wasn't easy to see through the trees.

 

 We then headed north through to Clarksville, and then caught Hwy 79 west where we crossed over Lake Barkley and then Kentucky Lake. We took Route 119 north then into Kentucky. Up through Murray and then took Hwy 94, then 80 back towards the east and across the lakes again. The first crossing along Hwy 80 across Kentucky Lake would be the same bridge that lost a portion when struck by a barge last year. It's quite obvious which section was the one replaced. The bridges here are old and historic here, but they are a little scary to cross.

 

  We made our way east and stopped in Hopkinsville to eat lunch. Nothing special, just an Arby's. I'm not really the adventurous type when it comes to eating out. After lunch we stopped at the monument at the birthplace of the Confederate President Jefferson Davis. The obelisk is the third tallest in America.

 

  We continued east going through Bowling Green and Glasgow, Burkesville, and then finally turned south and caught Hwy 111 just inside Tennessee as the sun was setting.

 

 It was so nice to finally get out of the house and seeing some countryside. I loved some of the small towns in Kentucky and would love to go back up and explore them more some day.

 I will be adding more photos here over the next few days, by different subject matter. Keep checking back, or checkout my Flickr page  to see all of the photos that have been uploaded.