American Motorcycle Music Tour

American USA Music BBQ and Blues Tour – Live Music Nightly
Smokey Mountains  Atlanta  Deal’s Gap Tail of the Dragon  Nashville  Memphis  The Cross Roads birthplace of the blues  New Orleans  San Antonio  Austin, Texas  ADD Santa Fe, Grand Canyon  Vegas  Blues  Western Swing  Country  Cajun  Bluegrass  Mountain Music

 

Plus Return Fee depending on which route
Atlanta to Dallas 11 Day = $375

Runs: May – June – Sept – Oct
This is an incredible ride. We hit the great American Blues, Roots, and Country Music Cities and Locations. Listen to Live Music Every Night.

Visit the famous Crossroads, the birthplace of the blues.

Nashville, Memphis, Sun Studios where Elvis first recorded, Graceland, the Cross Roads, New Orleans, Austin Texas, and more on the 1 week tour.

TOUR OPTIONS

1: 11 Day 10 Night – Atlanta to Dallas Texas
2: 15 Day 14 Night – Start on the Florida Coast, add after Austin stops like Santa Fe Springs, Gallup, The Grand Canyon, and end in Vegas!
3: 15 Day 14 Night – We spend more time at each Music City on the 1 week route but over 2 weeks. We really get to explore the history of American Music, have time to listen to even more music, and explore the area more on the bike.

ITINERARY

11 DAY 10 NIGHT TOUR – Atlanta Georgia, Tail of the Dragon famous Smokey Mountain ride, Nashville, Memphis, The Crossroads, New Orleans, Texas Coast, San Antonio Texas, Austin Texas and surrounding Music Halls.

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START – Atlanta, Georgia END: Dallas, Texas
We have the choice of either a layover in Nashville or New Orleans. We decide once we talk to all on the tour ahead of time. Also, there is the option if everyone wants to start in Florida instead of Atanta and have no layovers. We can even start in Daytona, but we need to make it an 11 day or make up a day long day after New Orleans or we have a very long day from Daytona to Atlanta. I see who we have on tour that year that signs up first, and then we make our choices. People who sign up late in the season will know before they sign up what we are doing.

BASIC ITINERARY BELOW MAP. Map starts in Atalanta and ends in Austin Texas.

Day 1 – We start in Atlanta Georgia ( big airport ).
Blue Clubs.

Day 2 – Smokey Mountains / Tail of the Dragon Mountain Ride / Blue Grass Mountain Music
We head up into the Mountains for some mountain bluegrass music and the Tail of the Dragon. One of the USA’s most famous mountain twisty roads in the beautiful Smokey Mountains.

Day 3 – Nashville, Tennessee ( Layover here or New Orleans )
So much to do and see here we do a layover day here or New Orleans. We cruise around town for a good breakfast, and then head out into the surrounding countryside for a nice ride and lots to see and hear. Then we are back in Nashville after lunch for plenty of neat things to do in the Country Music Capital of the World.

Day 4 – Memphis / Elvis
Then we ride to Memphis where we see Graceland and Sun Studios where Elvis first recorded. I have a secret spot here to eat where Elvis used to hang out to relax and get away from the crowds. It is in no book or map. My wife and I found it years ago when we got lost after visiting Graceland on a cross country journey. The ladies that worked there had worked there their whole lives and told us stories and showed us pictures of Elvis when he used to hang out there. I think we were the only white people to have been there since Elvis. Everyone in the place was absolutely fabulous.

Day 5 – The Crossroads / Mississippi Delta
We head towards the mysterious Cross Roads where the blues was born along the Mississippi Delta. Don’t sell your soul to the Devil here! Not only do we visit the known cross roads, but we also visit the on the low crossroads where some old bluesmen claim it really started… no one knows for sure.

Day 6 – New Orleans. ( Layover here or Nashville )
We get in early with time for some Cajun and Blues fun. Don’t feed the Gators.

Day 7 – New Orleans if Layover Here.
We could spends days in New Orleans. Plenty to see and do. Swamp boat rides, listen to the blues all day, fight a gator, we can go for a ride or two.

Day 8 – Enter Texas
We stop on the way to Texas at an old port for some hole in the wall music and town. We experience and stay at an old port town on the water, or if you guys want to be city slickers, we stay in Houston. So either local little off the path joints, or Big City Lights, and clubs.

Day 9 – San Antonio, Texas and surrounding area BBQ and Dance Halls
The next am we head out to the old Dance Halls around Texas. Some have music playing all day. We lay our heads in San Antonio, but before that we cruise the Riverwalk and go hear some live music.

Day 10 – Austin, Texas and the Hill Country – The Live Music Capital of the USA
In the morning we hit the beautiful Hill Country and real deal BBQ joints on our way into Austin.

But not before we check some live music out in Luchenbach Texas “Let’s go to Luckenbach, Texas
With Waylon and Willie and the boys” Then so much live music to see in Austin. Blues bars, Western Swing, maybe we can catch Austin City Limits.

Day 11 – Drop Off Dallas, Texas. – Fly out of Dallas.( large airport ) Drop bikes off late afternoon.
We get up after a great night out in Austin. Then start heading through Texas towards our final destination. We turn our bikes in late in the afternoon, seeing what real old Americana we can find on the side of the road on the way.

> I love this tour. So much fun.

Let’s go to Luckenbach, Texas
With Waylon and Willie and the boys
This successful life we’re livin’
Got us feuding like the Hatfields and McCoys
Between Hank Williams’ pain songs and
Newberry’s train songs and Blue Eyes Cryin’ in the Rain
Out in Luckenbach, Texas ain’t nobody feelin’ no pain

So baby, let’s sell your diamond ring
Buy some boots and faded jeans and go away
This coat and tie is choking me
In your high society you cry all day
We’ve been so busy keepin’ up with the Jones
Four car garage and we’re still building on
Maybe it’s time we got back to the basics of love

Let’s go to Luckenbach, Texas
With Waylon and Willie and the boys
This successful life we’re livin’ got us feudin’
Like the Hatfield and McCoys
Between Hank Williams’ pain songs and
Newberry’s train songs and Blue Eyes Cryin’ in the Rain
Out in Luckenbach, Texas ain’t nobody feelin’ no pain

Let’s go to Luckenbach, Texas
With Willie and Waylon and the boys
This successful life we’re livin’s got us feudin’
Like the Hatfield and McCoys
Between Hank Williams’ pain songs
And Jerry Jeff’s train songs and Blue Eyes Cryin’ in the Rain
Out in Luckenbach, Texas there ain’t nobody feelin’ no pain