Licks Cycles: Corvettes and Trains ~ Using Classic

After a great nights sleep in Russell Springs, we headed west throughout southern Kentucky. Two hours later we reached Bowling Springs, needing fuel and a chunk to eat. As we rolled into city we handed an indication for the Nationwide Corvette Museum and after some frantic hand gesturing, the choice was made to drag in for a tour.

It’s possible you’ll keep in mind that the Nationwide Corvette Museum was within the information final yr after a sink gap opened below the museum and sucked in eight basic vehicles. Simply think about exhibiting up for work on a Monday morning and discovering an enormous gap in the midst of your constructing, crammed with priceless cars. Sounds just like the stuff of motorhead nightmares, however it made for an incredible exhibit! Clearly the opening as since been crammed, however they did mark the placement of the opening, so you would see simply how huge it was. All of the vehicles had been recovered and put again on show, most of which had been left of their crushed state.

After spending an hour taking a look at vehicles I may by no means afford, we rode throughout the road to Artwork’s Corvettes to take a look at his showroom of collector vehicles. Artwork’s was crammed with basic muscle vehicles in addition to Corvettes and the costs appeared pretty cheap for totally restored machines. Fortunately I squandered all my cash on bikes, so there was no likelihood that I used to be getting talked into shopping for new automotive.

From Artwork’s we headed to downtown Bowling Inexperienced to take a look at the L&N Depot and Railpark. The museum was a bit lackluster, however the tour of the rail vehicles greater than made up for the ticket worth. We confirmed up at simply the fitting time to get a private tour adopted by a brief photograph session with the prepare. That engine seemed fairly huge in contrast to a few previous Harleys…

After spending a lot of the afternoon at museums, there wasn’t a lot time left to put down lots of miles earlier than darkish and we nonetheless wanted to eat dinner. We grabbed a chunk at a well-known burger joint referred to as Ferrell’s Hamburgers in Hopkinsville which proudly displayed photos of former President Bush consuming at their lunch counter. Paradoxically, the Democratic headquarters had been arrange within the adjoining constructing.

For the second night time in a row, we camped at a KOA campground. This one was positioned on Lake Barkley and was fairly spectacular. Together with all the standard KOA facilities, in addition they had a full service marina with 150 lined boat slips, two swimming pools, rental boats, rental golf carts and a tons of household pleasant actions. Tenting wasn’t fairly on the lake, however we may make out the water by the bushes.