We left really early from our dodgy hotel and had breakfast at a local diner. We thought we'd try the cooked breakfast that had eggs, bacon, grits and biscuits with gravy. Grits is an corn meal like porridge. Richard didn't like it, but I mixed butter in mine (like the waitress said) and it was okay. Biscuits with gravy is scones with a white peppery sauce, which was okay too.
Leaving early meant that we got to the Jack Daniels distillery in time for the second tour of the day.
The tour was awesome! Here's a picture of us by the statue of Jasper Newton Daniels, otherwise known as Jack Daniels. This is in front of the cave where they get their perfectly pure water from. The tour took us through how they get their maple charcoal, the mash and whiskey making, the mellowing of the whiskey through the charcoal, the barrels, and the bottling. You can buy a barrel of JD's from between US$9-12K and they will bottle it and send it to you along with the empty barrel. We were tempted, but no.
The distillery is in a dry county, so we weren't allowed to even have any tastings, but we had a quick dram when we got back to car.
Then we went to downtown Lynchberg (population 374) which consisted of mostly JD's centred shops. We had to wait until 1pm for the official shops to open, seeing as it was Sunday. So we had lunch and looked around the other shops, which also had a lot of JD's merchandise. We managed to spend quite alot of money in Lynchberg. Did our bit to boost their economy.
It was a very busy place, heaps of motorbikes.
I forgot to say that we drove the whole day today with the top down. We started off the day at about 18 degrees C (which is probably the lowest temp that's comfortable) and it got up to about 35 degrees C (which is probably top temp). We had our sun block on today which worked, thank goodness.
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