Ashland City

For November, the weather was impossibly nice, although clouds rolled in pretty quick and made it a little gloomier than I first thought, but no threat of rain. So, after a quick trip to the bank, I shot up Briley Parkway to Ashland City Highway.


Here's BRU at the Lewis Country Store, a Shell station in Scottsboro where I like to fill up.

Our hero on the porch of the Lewis Country Store.

A cool old Edsel cop car parked out front.

Rifles on the walls inside. Oh, yeah. Country decor!

The inside of the cool old Edsel cop car.

A tractor, out front.

A couple more tractors.

The obligatory country autumnal display.

With BRU's belly full, I headed on up Ashland City Highway, to Ashland City, proper, where my nearest Hardee's happens to be, to fill my belly. Their ads have had me jonesing to try a Big Hardee, which I did. Not bad for a fast food burger.

The Cumberland River, from the middle of the bridge in Ashland City.

Yours Truly, again.

From Ashland City, I went down 49 to 250, and into the Cheatham Wildlife Management Area, where hunting is allowed, apparently... but only in certain areas.

Not much to see in the CWMA. I actually went a few miles down Headquarters Road, which was a hard-packed dirt road with gravel on it. When I came up to the TWRA station, I was met by a TWRA ranger, who said I could go no further without a hunting permit. Just as well... I'd hate to be shot by some goob mistaking me for a deer.

He wanted to know if I was lost. "No -- just explorin' a little." The ride down 250 was a lot of twisty fun, though.

This is a watchtower right across the street from Grumpy's:

Then, I went back the way I came, turning off at River Road, and taking 251 south into Pegram, then west and back home on 70 (Charlotte Ave).

I saw a lot of two wheeled brothers on my trip (about 50 miles), and almost all of them gave the wave. On the way back, I even ended up behind a woman on a Honda Metropolitan... on a 55mph stretch of 70, no less. She was kind enough to pull off as soon as the light turned green. :)

What's really cool is that all along Ashland City Highway, River Road and a lot of the other roads I was on, today: There were signs posted frequently reminding motorists to share the road with bicyclists. Very cool for a rather rural route through the outlying areas of Nashville.
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