Nashville, TN to Bowling Green, KY and Back to Nashville, TN

Days on the road: 7.
Miles today: 181.
Miles to date: 1727.

Day 7 involved a blast up I-65 into the verdant and rolling hills of Kentucky and on to the Corvette factory in Bowling Green. Perhaps it is all the Mighty Machines / Thomas The Tank Engine / and Pixar's Cars that I've seen over the last 5 years as friends have been breeding, but just 1 car factory tour wasn't enough. The differences between the BMW and GM factories were plentiful, but one thing that stood out was the number of GM workers wearing a brace or a wrap on a body part. I didn't notice even 1 BMW employee playing hurt. Does that have something to do with the fact that GM is unionized and BMW is not or something to do with the relative ages of employees (GM decidedly older)? It was very interesting to compare and contrast both operations. The National Corvette Museum was quite the place where as the BMW museum was rather lacking and specific to models that had been produced in the USA.


Fusco's Fun Fact For The Day:

Did you know that Bowling Green is called "Tree City USA"? Mind you, the town has fallen far from grace, but it is leafy.


Post tour, I explored Bowling Green to little reward. I headed back to Nashville and with time to kill visited Opry Mills. That's right, there's a giant shopping mall attached to The Grand Ol' Opry for all your food court, IMAX theatre, and factory outlet needs. I had popped in to the bookstore to pick up some reading material, but toured the mall like a dis-affected teenager in search of a skateboard.


CONTENT WARNING: THE FOLLOWING POST CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES.


I call the following photo essay, "Cupcake, Meet Thy Master" and is proof of what happens when friends (PJ & LZ) insist on me going to the Cupcake Collection for the traditional Nashvillian afternoon snackette of Sweet Lemonade and Sweet Potato cupcakes:









They didn't stand a chance.