Another scorching day today – 34 degrees – so it didn’t take long to dry out our soggy tent this morning. We got on the road to Memphis via Lynchburg, home of the Jack Daniels distillery. The tour was really good and the place has a surprisingly small-company feel (all of the JD in the world is distilled here, but most of the operation is around maturing and distribution, so the actual whiskey-making process is still quite small). The tour was free, but really made you want to try some of the whiskey. Technically, the distillery is in a dry county, although the only town in the county seems to be Lynchburg, so most people must work for JD, and all the workers get a free bottle a month. Also, they have a special license allowing them to sell special edition bottles in the distillery, so it seems like the owners have done a pretty good job of making sure that the only alcohol consumed comes from the distillery!
We resisted the urge to by a bottle and continued along the hot and slow route 64 to Memphis, eventually arriving at Meeman-Shelby Forest state park, on the banks of the Mississippi, where we pitched for the night. The car was immediately bombarded by large wasp-like insects (Louise thinks maybe cicada wasps) which does not bode well for the bitey bitey count. We also saw 3 racoons, a mother and two babies, at dusk.
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