{"id":1671,"date":"2012-10-25T20:12:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T00:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2012-10-25T20:24:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T00:24:27","slug":"day-1-tn-to-natchez-trace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/day-1-tn-to-natchez-trace\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1 TN to Natchez Trace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good first day<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was on the road at 6:00 AM so it was dark. I don’t ride a lot in the dark but had been happy with my new\u00a0Vision X Solstice Solo 10 watt LED auxiliary lights because people have told me they make me so visible during day light hours.\u00a0As \"Vision<\/a>I headed toward I-35 I was trying to find the switch to see if they were on. They weren’t.<\/p>\n

Oh. My. God. I hit the switch and the road lit up 2 to 3 times brighter. I can’t believe these little 10 watt LEDs can throw so much light. I love them.<\/p>\n

I took George Bush tollway all the way to where it now connects with I-30 east right before you cross Lake Ray Hubbard. It was awesome — more traffic than I expected at that hour, but 70 MPH all the way. I was well on my way to Texarkana by the time the sun came up.<\/p>\n

Thrilling I-40 again<\/strong><\/p>\n

Got through Texarkana and Little Rock with no problems. I love the 440 loop around Little Rock. The skies finally cleared and I had sunshine on the way to Memphis. Saw a little lake with Canadian geese walking around.<\/p>\n

I had a heck of a south side wind from Little Rock to Memphis. I may be alone in this, but I find this particular stretch of I-40 boring and really unattractive. The side wind didn’t enhance the experience.<\/p>\n

I tried the south loop of 55 to 240 to avoid 40 through Memphis. I think I like it better than taking 40, but it was 1 in the afternoon so hard telling what it would be like during rush hour.<\/p>\n

Got farther than expected going 635 miles before stopping \u00a0in Dickson, TN for the night so I only have 235 miles to get into La Follette tomorrow. \u00a0Rain is forecast around noon so I hope to stay out in front of it.<\/p>\n

A few days in La Follette and then I’ll head back to Nashville to get on the Natchez Trace Parkway to go south to Natchez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good first day I was on the road at 6:00 AM so it was dark. I don’t ride a lot in the dark but had been happy with my new\u00a0Vision X Solstice Solo 10 watt LED auxiliary lights because people have told me they make me so visible during day light hours.\u00a0As I headed toward […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trip_reporting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1677,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/1677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}