Travel Blogs from Louisville, United States
My Old Kentucky Home
... Stevie's I saw a billboard for Narnia, the Exhibition. So it turns out that it's this traveling exhibit that opened at the Louisville Science Center today, the last day I'm here. You couldn't keep me away from this place. It was a cute ...
Can you spot the genuine smile?
Some time ago I dated an unhappy geographer. So I picked up a compelling book entitled One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World: The Geography of Bliss. Eric Weiner, an NPR Correspondent, uses the emerging field of ...
Never mind: The way of mai pen lai
Again, an excerpt from The Geography of Bliss. “You’re too serious!” and “Don’t think too much!” These are common Thai expressions, and they say much about this country and how it defines the good ...
Best Buy lives up to it's name
I walked into Best Buy yesterday with the intention of merely inquiring about a portable, external hard drive. I wanted to know whether or not I could begin storing my music on said drive and if it would be compatible when I eventually upgraded to ...
We're home
Most of them has safely returned to the Louisville Airport. Anni and Alan are driving home so will be home in the next day. Praise the Lord for a safe trip! ...
Louisville Slugger
Walked around Downtown Louisville in the morning. just checked out the big louisville slugger and checked out the city. not much was open but we got some breakfast in what appeared to be the only place open on that fine sunday ...
Exploring USA - Louisville, Kentucky
... her friend Dave picked us up at the airport. We bought lunch on our way home...the real Kentucky fried chicken. I find Louisville a very quiet and slow pace place. We rested for the whole afternoon at Cynthia's place, then later in the evening, we ...
Kansas City, MO to Louisville, KY
... BTV ended the trip indicating that he liked today’s drive better because of all the colors. We did drive into Louisville with a thunderstorm to the south and east that reflected the setting sub everywhere turning the sky and the ground a deep ...
A tradition continues
... ;We then did what has become a day-after-Derby tradition for us: lunch at Cunningham's while reading the Sunday Louisville Courier-Journal. Cunningham's is casual restaurant (very close to the Brown Hotel) with a good, old-fashioned Sunday ...
end of day one
... Café. Then back to the Rocking Horse bed and breakfast for a good night's sleep. Our B&B was in a very old ornate Louisville home. Built with old Bourbon money. For those who are reading this and remember 7811 it was very similar layout, however the ...
Ohio, PA, and Louisville, Kentucky
... ' in her thick southern drawl. We checked out Kentucky's Bourbon Trail, and had some whiskey tastings and checked out the Louisville Sluggers baseball museum and bat factory and took home some miny bat suvenirs. I got a sweet necklace for $1.50 and ...
BAseball, baseball, baseball.
... Skillet restaurant to eat. More food that I could have wanted, Steve got to have grits and he was so happy. Now on to Louisville and the slugger museum. To my grandson and son-in-law, you really do need to go to this museum. To all other ...
Louisville Slugger & Irish Fest (by Katelyn)
Louisville, KY (by Katelyn) Today we went to the Louisville Slugger museum and factory, which is located in Louisville, Kentucky. There, we went on a tour that told us how a baseball bat is made. I learned that 1.8 million bats are made ...
Dawn at the Downs
... Julips in the 2013 souvenir Derby Glasses. To top off the day, the four of us drove down to Waterfront Park near downtown Louisville. The Derby Festival was in full swing here with lots of food vendors, bands and rides. Brian and I took a helicopter ...
Westward
We are back on the road and headed back to Washington!!! Hopefully the weather will treat us well on the way back. After the snow in Richmond, I've had my fill for the time being. Despite the crazy weather, we had an awesome few days ...
Louisville, KY
We also swung through Louisville, hitting up the library, from where we got a little and short chance to check our ...
Lilies for the Fillies
Kentucky Oaks day dawned cool and a little windy. (I was very glad I'd decided to bring a coat.) Hubby headed to the concierge lounge while I showered and got ready. He was kind enough to bring me back some fruit and hot tea. ...
3 days left
So there's about 3 days before David and I leave. Yes, we are excited, but more so, we're just trying to prepare well. We spent the better part of yesterday cleaning the entire house and doing a little prep work for our trip. Anyway, this is mostly to ...
Thanks for the room key!
Louisville is great... we went to Lynn's Paradise Cafe which was this crazy lil restaurant. Then we headed to Fourth St. where there were a bunch of bars, hard rock cafe, improv theater, etc we went to Saddle Ridge a country bar around 6 to have a couple ...
Gathered at the airport
The team is gathered at the airport and preparing to travel! Pray hard and often for us as we begin this awesome journey! We will be traveling through Chicago this evening and then on to Frankfurt, Germany. From Frankfurt, we transfer ...
At Louisville airport
We made it to the airport, thanks to Kenn McFarland and Max. Should be in Newark by 4:30pm, then leave at 8:30 for Mumbai (Bombay to you old schoolers) Regards, ...
Belle of Louisville and , then Home
... and took my spot at the bow of the boat, comfortably overlooking the river. The Ohio River is huge! On one side is Louisville, Kentucky, and on the other side is Indiana. For the next two hours, the boat pumped leisurely down the river, passing beautiful ...
Moving day
Going to keep it short and sweet, I'm flying from Denver to Atlanta to Manchester today, 13 hours of flying but it will be all worth it once I'm there. Stay ...
Getting Ready
We're about 1.5 weeks away from leaving. We finally finished booking all the places we're going to stay and have our car rentals waiting for us. We head out two Wednesdays from now, for an 8:15pm flight direct to London. Our packs are ready to go, ...

