Hold On For One Wild Ride

Making our way back to the hotel through Nashville at 5 pm on a weekday and with the CMA Fanfest in full swing requires an entry of its own. As soon as we entered Nashville West the traffic began to pick up and it was stop and go at every light. Then we began to sit and watch the lights change from red to green to red again and we didn’t move. Gabby indicated I was to turn right in half a mile and I was in the right lane but don’t you know at the light for 9th Ave the right lane became a turn lane only and I didn’t want to turn yet! How to move over with bumper to bumper vehicles on your left? Well you just do it and hope the vehicle you pull in front of doesn’t cuss you. Sure hope Andy and Don can get over! More stop and go and mostly stopping. Then we turn and weave our way through more cars inching their way to the next intersection. Some want to go left and others want to go right and with no rhyme or reason cars cut in and out. I’m looking for 1st Ave to make my last right turn and get out of Dodge – Oh no the street is blocked off so no choice but to go straight as Gabby recalculates only to take us around the block and get us back to 1st Ave. The bikes are getting hot and my leg feels like it is blistered so we pull off by the curb and stop while I switch Gabby to go ahead and take the highway. Well did she ever! A quick turn over the bridge and we head for route 24 where we enter the rat race on the right and snake our way to the left through 4 lanes of bumper to bumper cars inching their way home; another left and then move to the right now back to the left follow route 40 east watch the split or you could be heading for Knoxville. Ok made it where are Andy and Don? I can hear them on the CB but don’t see them in the maze of vehicles in my rearview mirrors. Got to keep moving with the traffic which is now moving at 70 mph and I want to make sure I get over to the right for which exit now? Oh there it is I call Andy and Don on the CB and hope they know which one to take; there they are and there is the hotel. Wow what a wild ride.