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Because US-127 passes fairly close to where I live, I had a rare
opportunity to spend a night at home in the middle of a road trip. The
staff was sketchy and cleanliness was subpar but the location and price
were excellent.
Back on US-127, I had another unusual opportunity. It's not unusual for me to eat at a new-to-me restaurant, in this case Lindebwald Station, during a trip but it is unusual for it to be in goetta range (i.e., within roughly twenty-five or so miles of Cincinnati's center). |
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I had returned to US-127 this morning at exactly the same spot where I
left it last night but this is the first identifier of the day.
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Near downtown Cincinnati, US-127 passes between the new and the old. The
brand new TQL Stadium, where Cincinnati's major league soccer team plays,
is on the west side and the 1877 Music Hall,(where the Cincinnati Symphony
Orchestra (and many others) plays, is on the east. Of an age between those
two are some of the murals that were once in Union Terminal but are now
displayed at the Convention Center. I left Ohio on the 1974 Clay Wade
Bailey Bridge.
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I had been in some sort of metropolitan area since yesterday afternoon and
crossing the river did not change that. I sure was happy to see things
finally open up beyond Union, KY. US-127 and the Ohio River angle toward
each other but spend less than a mile together before the road turns
sharply away from the river to continue south. There is a small parking
area with a Great River Tragedy marker at the
turn.
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Farther south in Kentucky, solid rock makes it tougher for the trees but
hubcaps and license plates seem to get along nicely.
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I barely managed to grab a shot of the Cumberland Lake Dam before US-127
took me on and over it.
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And less than twenty miles later, I was in Tennessee.
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I as definitely ready for a break when the
Forbus
General Store appeared. There was much more available but I settled
for a drink and a snack and some walking around the parking lot.
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This used car lot full of cars that have been used a lot caught my eye in
Grimsley, TN, and I pulled around the corner to get another view. The
only double-decker I saw was the stacked 1959 (mean average) Chevys but
there could be others among the cars hiding in the woods.
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Locals told me that this construction near Crossville, TN, has been going
on for quite some time so maybe two-lane US-127 will soon become a thing
of the past here or maybe not.
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