Drive to Texas: Focus on Tennessee

Next, we move from the pink properties to the orange ones; on the Monopoly board, Virginia to Tennessee means you've rolled a 4. Since you're closer, would you please move up my thimble?





It is about 500 miles (almost 8 hours) across Tennessee the long way. Tennessee was the 16th state to join the union. Tennessee is nicknamed the Volunteer State. The nickname was earned during the War of 1812, in which volunteer soldiers from Tennessee were important contributors.




The Volunteer State


As noted in one of the early posts, we drive through Nashville and Memphis. We also might be making our way to Lyles. Why? Because that's where the Beacon Light Tea Room is. Fried chicken, okra, biscuits. Fine, as long as we take a nice, long, brisk walk after our salad dinner and maybe another one before breakfast the next morning too. There's a good review on roadfood.com.



"Smoky, vividly fruity blackberry preserves are here piled atop a split biscuit on a backdrop of country ham." - Michael Stern (roadfood.com)


Memphis, of course, will need its own food-related post. Stay tuned!