Around 8 this morning, Mary and I left GRG HQ and we're now in "Music City USA", Nashville, Tennessee!!!

Here's the "roadgeek status report"...

- Driven I-24 from I-75 in Chattanooga to I-440 in Nashville.
- "CLINCHED" I-440!!!
- "Clinched" the following Tennessee counties: Grundy, Franklin ("froggied" it just off I-24 on US 64/TN SPR 50 West), Coffee, Bedford, Rutherford, and Davidson.

Since it was nice and sunny, I mounted the camera on the windshield and shot some video footage for future "ROADGEEK-CAM!!!" episodes.

Now, let's talk about I-440 (a.k.a. "The Four-Fourty Parkway")...

The moment you enter I-440 from I-24 (Exit 53), you will encounter an overhead brown sign saying, "Entering Four-Forty Parkway"... plus some potholes.

Most of I-440's 7 miles of pavement is primarily concrete that apparently has been there since it was finished in the 1980s, and regretfully, it seems that Tennessee DOT (TDOT) has not really maintained it as well and one would hope. In fact, as I was driving, I could not help but comment to Mary about how we must be on a long "obstacle course" of pothole after pothole.

Years ago, I remember seeing a parody of a Pennsylvania license plate that read "You've Got A Pothole In" (as opposed to "You've Got A Friend In") Pennsylvania, the plate number being I80I81. I don't know how many potholes Pennsylvania's roads have (or had), but I swear that I encountered so many on Nashville's I-440, I'm amazed that the State of Tennessee has not decided to dedicate them like most places do roads, bridges, interchanges, and even intersections.

If you want to learn more about I-440, then please click here.

Since I'm on a business center PC with a limited amount of time, I better wrap up this report for now.

Tomorrow, as Mary attends class, I'll be off doing more sightseeing and "roadgeeking" and I'll keep you posted as much as possible.

That's it for now. Thanks for reading and please stay tuned for more.