This picture is from my 2016 Road Crew in the Fork trip. The title describes a key aspect of the planned trip but does not fit the actual trip at all. The trip was scheduled around a concert by “America’s Route 66 Band”, The Road Crew, in Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee. Shows at the Bluebird and Grand Ole Opry in nearby Nashville added to the trip’s planned musical content. The only one of those three shows I actually attended was the one at the Bluebird.

I had taken my time on the drive down with an overnight in Louisville, KY, and visits to a couple of museums before hitting the Bluebird on my first night in Nashville. It was raining when I headed back to my motel and overnight the biggest snowfall to hit the town in thirteen years began to fall. That night’s show at the Ryman did happen but I and many others were unable to get there with several roads, including parts of I-24 and I-40, closed. The Road Crew show for the following night was canceled. I considered myself quite lucky to be ensconced in something of a poor man’s resort with a rather busy Waffle House connected by steps to a cozy and completely filled Motel 6.

Trip Peeks are short articles published when my world is too busy or too boring for a current events piece to be completed in time for the Sunday posting. In addition to a photo thumbnail from a completed road trip, each Peek includes a brief description of that photo plus links to the full-sized photo and the associated trip journal.