Motorcycle Ride to the National Corvette Museum

What red-blooded American male doesn't have admiration for the true American sports car the Corvette?  The National Corvette Museum is the only museum dedicated to one model of car.  That car being the Chevrolet Corvette, built since 1953 and now in its 7th generation. We have lived just a short 70-mile drive from the museum in Bowling Green for over 20 years now and have never been there.  We get a 56-degree day in January so we decide to make that ride.  Terri and I  break out the Motorcycles and hit the road.

From Clarksville, we head up highway 79 towards Russellville the Confederate Capital of Kentucky during the Civil War.   US Highway 79 is 2 lane bliss through Tennessee and Kentucky countryside.   In Russellville, we join the four lanes of US Highway 68 that take us to Bowling Green.  We have to take Highway 68 Business through Bowling Green to get to the Museum, that lies near Interstate 65 on no less Corvette Drive.

Before going into the Museum we eat at the Corvette Cafe that is decorated in the Corvette theme.  The food is ok but overpriced.  The long lobby by the entrance is filled with 2015 Corvettes that had been customer ordered.   The price to enter the Museum is $10 a person.  For military it is free and military retiree's pay $8 which is good for me personally.

The museum, of course, has all the models of corvettes on display.  It even has the, 1983 which there were only 22 test cars made. I particularly enjoyed seeing Roy Orbison's 1966 stingray.   There is a short film at the beginning of the self-guided tour that explains the history of the Corvette.  This care was built for American men that fell in love with European styled sports cars in Europe.  Care they saw during World War II while in Europe. Well the Corvette delivered.

Of course now you can't talk about the Corvette museum without talking about the sinkhole that swallowed up 8 cars.   Happening in February of 2014 the sinkhole and cars are now being repaired.   It was interesting seeing the cars that were damaged on display, even the ones that were awaiting repair. You can even view the repair of the sinkhole which is almost completed.

Well after the tour it was time to tear up the road back to the Clarksville.  It was a fun trip for both Terri and I,  It is always a rare chance to get out on the open road in January.