We have just visited Poppies Louisiana Kitchen and had the best fried chicken I’ve ever tasted. We also got approached by a ‘good old boy’ who told us our man bags made us stand out as non-American – a bit of a Jeremy Clarkson moment for those who remember the Top Gear gang being run out of an American southern state because they had Gay slogans on one of their cars!
This morning we went to the Grand Ole Opry. It’s located on the outskirts of Nashville and is a nice but not exceptional building. Back stage tours were fairly expensive and they didn’t know when they’d start, so we rode on. We visited four states in today’s two hundred miles trip and still haven’t seen a ‘gator – though had to avoid a tortoise crossing the road. Brunch was at a really eccentric diner run by three aging sisters and their mother. We were their only customers and got very personal service as they were keen to know where we came from etc. The food wasn’t bad either. The ride today wasn’t exceptional as the roads were long, flat and empty through fields or forests. We crossed the Mississippi three times!
