Arrive in Nashville and transfer to your hotel. Nashville is set amid gentle hills and farmland and is the Country Music Capital of the World! You might want enjoy a music tour while here and visit the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Grand Ole Opry. Overnight.

This morning you will pick up your motorcycle and are on your way to Memphis, which is one of the most intriguing cities in the US. From Nashville you can take Hwy 40 all the way into Memphis - alternatively you can ride the Natchez Trace Parkway down to Waynesboro, where you enter US 64 toward Memphis. En route you might want to visit Shilo National Military Park, located approx. 110 miles east of Memphis. The park commemorates one of the most crucial battles of the Civil War, where over 20,000 men were killed. From here it’s off to Memphis. In addition to the larger-than-life influences of Elvis, Memphis offers fabulous BBQ joints and places like A. Schwab, where you can still buy celluloid collars and voodoo supplies. Overnight.

If you are a music lover, you can easily spend weeks in Memphis hitting great record stores and talking to older Memphians. Perhaps you would like to visit Sun Studio or Graceland before you continue your ride into the state of Alabama. You leave Memphis on US 78 and ride up to Tupelo. It was in here that Elvis Presley, the King of Rock’n Roll, was born January 8, 1935, and you might want to visit his birthplace. You follow US 78 all the way into Birmingham. Here, you should take some time to visit the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum. Birmingham is a rejuvenated place – it went through a rapid transformation of farmland to the city. Overnight.

Today you head north on Hwy 231 to Huntsville, the first home of the nation’s space program (US Space and Rocket Center is located 5 miles west of downtown). From here you continue north and ride up to Lynchburg, home to Jack Daniel’s Distillery. Founded in 1866, this is the oldest registered distillery in the country. There is an entertaining 70-minute tour available that leads you through every step of the sour-mash whiskey-making process – definitely worth checking out! Lynchburg itself is a pretty hamlet, laid out around a neat town square with a redbrick courthouse and a number of old-fashioned stores. Out of Lynchburg your journey will take you east and you are on your way to Chattanooga. The name Chattanooga comes from a Greek word meaning “Rock Rising to a Point” – the rock in question here is 2215 ft Lookout Mountain, which looms six miles south of downtown. To reach the top you can either ride the whole way along a complicated, poorly sign-posted road, or you can catch the world’s steepest incline railway. At Point Lookout you can enjoy a not-to-be-missed view of the city and the meandering Tennessee River below. You overnight in Chattanooga, a very picturesque town that holds much appeal for visitors.

Today you are in for a real treat, as you will be riding one of the most mind-blowing roads! You head toward the Great Smokey Mountains and at Tellico Plains you pick up Cherohala Skyway, a little known but amazingly beautiful 36-mile road winding up and over 36,000-foot mountains. Get ready to take the “Deal’s Gap”…with 318 knuckle-whitening curves in the first eleven miles, this narrow passage is affectionately known as “The Dragon”, and considered by many as the world’s best motorcycling and sports car roads. You continue to Gatlinburg, a popular mountain resort. Dogwood trees line the main street, which leads to the entrance of the Great Smokey Mountains National Park. Overnight.

Today you have time to tour the Great Smokey’s, the most popular park in the United States. It offers a taste of wilderness to some nine million visitors annually. The park covers 520,460 acres along the 6,000-foot high Hill Crest of the Smokey Mountains, so named for the fogs that fill the deep valleys. Before the park was established its lands were extensively logged – 70 percent of the trees had been clearcut by 1934, when the lands were not protected as a National Park. Fortunately, the forests have grown back to obscure any sign of the past degradations, and the uncut portions form the most extensive stands of primeval forests in the Eastern United States. You ride via Pigeon Forge up to Knoxville. At the close of the 18^th century a flood of settlers burst into Tennessee, transforming Knoxville outpost on the Tennessee River into a gateway to the West. Overnight.

From Knoxville you head back to Nashville. Before you get back to Nashville you might want to stop in Murfreesboro, which lost the seat of government to Nashville by one vote. A 26-foot obelisk, 3 miles from the public square, indicated the geographic center of Tennessee. The 1859 Rutherford County Courthouse was the site of a dawn attack by Nathan Bedford Forrest and his Confederate cavalry on Union troops encamped within. About 3 miles northwest of town the Battle of Stones River was fought in late December and early January 1862 – 63. Once you are back in Nashville it will be time to return your motorcycle and transfer to your hotel. Overnight.

Today your trip will come to an end with your departure flight back home.