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We had 16 bikes and 19 people on this ride, and the weather was absolutely PERFECT!
If you've never been to the Bicentennial Mall and Park in Nashville, TN., it's well worth the afternoon.
And I say the "afternoon", because if you're at all interested in the history of TN., it'll take you all afternoon to soak
in all the information that is available to you in this park.
And the Nashville Farmer's Market is right next door, so you have a varity of types of food to eat,
(indoors in air conditioned comfort), and you can stroll the market and purchase nearly any kind of fresh vegetable and farm
product that can be grown in TN.
Here's a few pictures from our time there.
The 16 bikes and 19 riders parking and getting ready to enjoy a beautiful walk through the Bicentennial
Mall and Park.
These 6 Ladies of Harley, (LOH), Chapter members, rode their own bikes on this ride and they comprised nearly
50% of the 16 bikes we had on that ride that day. The State Capitol building can be seen in the background, almost center
of the photograph.
The same 6 LOH Chapter members standing beside their bikes.
3 addition LOH Chapter members were passengers on their husband's bikes and these 9 LOH members, nearly
made up 50% of the 19 people we had on the ride that day. CLEARLY, the Tuckessee Chapter of the Harley Owners Group, (HOG),
is no "Boys Club"!
Tuckessee Chapter members on the Nashville, TN., Bicentennial Mall, with the State Capitol building in the
background, (old fashioned looking building, center/right).
Panoramic view of the front wall of Bicentennial Park with the fountains and many kids enjoying the spraying
water on a warm summer day. The wall has various informational bits about the state of TN and really begins your history lesson,
as you move around this wall, and start into the park, where another longer wall, leads you through the history of the area
of our nation, known as Tennessee, from prehistoric times to present day.
The wall in Bicentennial Park, that shows the history of TN., is all one long, straight, unbroken granite
wall, except for the time period of the Civil War. The panels of the wall that represent that time period, appear to be broken
and scattered in disarray, to simulate the disorder of the United States Union, caused by the American Civil War.
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Water plays a key part in TN. history. In fact, on the front wall, where the fountains are, one of the notices
there, tells you that flooding, is the major, and most often natural disaster to be seen in TN.
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This huge, solid, granite globe, sits on a base that has water coming up out of it and spilling over the edge
of the base. That water actually causes this solid globe of granite, to FLOAT, and you can turn the globe by hand, in any
direction and on any axis that you want. As you can see, some of our Chapter members had fun turning the globe!
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A beautiful view of the TN. State Capitol building, from the Bicentennial Mall and Park.
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