Day 3 - > Memphis TN to Bardstown PA

"No rollerskating on the Parthenon."

[josh] The King's Court in memphis may be a 1-2 star hotel, but there is no breakfast. We went to a Starbucks to get some coffee and breakfast before we headed out. There were a lot more things to see and do in Memphis, but we had to get moving on to Kentucky and the bourbon trail. So then next stop on the way would be Nashville.

We decide to only do a few stops in Nashville. First up was the Parthenon. Yes there is apparently a full-size replica of the Parthenon in Nashville. It was built as part of the Tennesse centential celebration at the turn of the century to emphasize the notion of Nashville as "The Athens of the South." I would think that Athens GA would have a pretty good bid on that title, but who knows.













So we stopped in Centennial Park in Nashville. The Parthenon is really cool looking in the setting of a park right near the city. Unfortunately, the inner area was closed on Sunday so we couldn't see the giant statue of Athena inside. We wondered maybe it was closed on Sundays to keep pagans out.

Around back there was an interesting sign - no rollerskating on the parthenon.



Back in the car and on to the next stop - the Lane Motor Museum ( http://www.lanemotormuseum.org/ ). I was lukewarm on this originally. I like cars, but car museums can be boring. This place turned out to be pretty cool. I had website for this place online, back when I was looking for places to buy a Messerschmitt car. They have a lot of mini-cars, electric cars, three-wheel cars, french cars, and other oddballs. Chris mentioned that it felt like some sort of a museum of failed automotive products. What? the motor cycle with the snowmobile tread was a commercial failure? Really.
My favorites were the Caterham Seven, the Messerschmitt, and the BMW Isetta.





Inspired by the motor museum, we jumped back into our own oddball car to make some miles before dark. We were shooting for the middle of Kentucky as our stop for the night, so we could start on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail.

Tech update: the car ran pretty well, and the weather was awesome - dry, clear, and around 72F. We filled up after Memphis with 9.03 gal giving us 32.4mpg for the previous leg. We filled up later that night with 7.87 gal, putting us at 30.6mpg for that leg.
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