Welcome, Old Scratch! You'll love the Tenere more and more, the more you ride her. I came off of a Kaw ZG1000 Concours, but had had three HD's before that, and haven't looked back.
Where in 'Bama are you? I grew up in the Shoals area, worked for years for NASA and the Missile Command in Huntsville/Redstone Arsenal/MSFC while living in Decatur or Madison. Married a girl from south of B'ham, and after our home got damaged moderately by Hurricane Ivan, we moved to northern Missouri and bought her Grandma's old homeplace and farm.