Self-Guided Tour

Triple B Self-Guided Tour

15 days / 14 nights • Self-Guided • 2048 mi / 3276.8 km • 55 - 105 °F / 12.8 - 40.6 °C

Ride EagleRider’s Blues, Bourbon, and BBQ Tour, and you will find great roads, food, and music at every turn. The rolling mountain roads will have you on cloud nine, while the soulful sounds of the South penetrate to the bone. From New Orleans, the birthplace of Jazz, to the Country Music capital of Nashville, all the way to the Chicago Blues, the roads sing the history of America. Nightclubs, juke joints, speakeasys, and honky-tonks abound, and the mouth-watering BBQ and bourbon will satisfy the biggest of appetites. Make sure you pack your Lust for Life in your suitcase, you’re gonna need it!

day 1
New Orleans, LA - Arrival
1 mi / 1.6 km
Welcome to New Orleans, the Big Easy! Retaining much of its French colonial influence, this unique American city is famous around the world for its culture, cuisine, and music.
day 2
New Orleans day at leisure
0 mi / 0 km
After picking up our bikes in the late morning, you can head out and get to know southern Louisiana. You can spend the day exploring some backcountry bayous and antebellum (pre-Civil War) Plantations and gardens, soaking in the landscape and cultural history of the American South.
day 3
New Orleans, LA – Natchez, MS
198 mi / 316.8 km
Now it’s time to hit the road! You will leave Louisiana behind and begin our tour with a journey up the Mississippi Blues Trail, with markers commemorating the birth, growth, and influence of Delta Blues throughout the state of Mississippi.
day 4
Natchez, MS – Tupelo, MS
269 mi / 430.4 km
This morning’s ride along the scenic Natchez Trace Parkway follows the historical Natchez Trace, a 400-mile long trail system connecting central Tennessee with the Mississippi River. You will cross over the state of Mississippi and will pass through the city of Betonia until we arrive in Tupelo, the birthplace of Elvis Presley.
day 5
Tupelo, MS – Clarksdale, MS
240 mi / 384 km
No trip to the South is complete without visiting the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, which preserves and promotes awareness of the Blues. On our way we’ll see more Blues-influenced destinations such Indianola where B.B. King played and Po’ Monkeys Lounge in Merigold, one of the last original juke joints in the South.
day 6
Clarksdale, MS – Memphis, TN
125 mi / 200 km
Music lovers around the world know Beale Street, a national historical landmark which showcases the impact Memphis has had on the Blues and Jazz. Legends such as Louis Armstrong, Muddy Waters, Memphis Minnie, and most notably B.B. King, all helped develop the style known as Memphis Blues. One of the city’s most important Rock and Roll icons is Sun Studio, which discovered the talents of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Roy Orbison.
day 7
Memphis day off to find our “Inner Elvis” and eat some amazing Memphis style BBQ
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Today you can take this day to discover your inner Elvis at Graceland
day 8
Memphis, TN – Athens, AL
240 mi / 384 km
Today we ride through the famous city of Muscle Shoals. Since the 1960s, the city has been known for music – developing the "Muscle Shoals Sound", as local recording studios (including FAME Studios in the late 1950s and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in 1969) produced hit records that shaped the history of popular music.
day 9
Athens, AL – Nashville, TN
150 mi / 240 km
The ‘Bourbon’ part of our tour begins today as we head East and ride through the heart of Tennessee to Lynchburg, home to the Jack Daniel’s distillery. We’ll finish another gorgeous riding day with a tour at the Visitor Center. Next our ride takes us to Nashville, the Country Music capital of the world. Tonight you can experience more incredible BBQ, and listen to some live music at one of the many ‘honky tonks’ along Broadway Street, where legends like Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and Patsy Cline got their start.
day 11
Nashville, TN – Louisville, KY
175 mi / 280 km
Another beautiful backroads ride is in store today, as you head north into central Kentucky. Along the way you can stop in Bowling Green at the National Corvette Museum, to see how America’s favorite sports car is made. Tonight you will overnight in Louisville.
day 12
Louisville, KY - Springfield, IL
270 mi / 432 km
This morning we will leave Kentucky and enter into Indiana, passing through Hoosier National Forest and riding along the rural and scenic byways of southeastern Indiana. In the afternoon you will cross over into the state of Illinois on our way to the state capital Springfield. Springfield is well known for being the home town and final resting place of the great president Abraham Lincoln. It is also a popular destination for travelers along Route 66, the most famous road in America which passes through the middle of this lively and welcoming Midwest town.
day 13
Springfield, IL - Milwaukee, WI
290 mi / 464 km
Leaving Springfield today, you will travel along Route 66 visiting some of the sites that gave this Historic Hwy the title "The Mother Road". You will make your way through the farmlands of central Illinois on your way north to Milwaukee, Wisconsin - the home of the heart and soul of American motorcycles, Harley Davidson!
day 14
Milwaukee, WI - Chicago, IL
90 mi / 144 km
For our final day you can start off by visiting the Harley Davidson Museum before you head down to Chicago and bring this tour full circle. The Blues may have been born in Mississippi but they sank their roots in sweet home Chicago. You will drop the bikes at EagleRider and finish off your last night taking in the sights of The Windy City.
day 15
Chicago, IL - Departure - Arrival
0 mi / 0 km
We hope you had a wonderful tour with EagleRider, and we’ll see you on your next great motorcycle adventure!

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