Comfort Inn and Suites Airport and Expo Louisville

... to remember I still need to be able to fit on the plane to go home!!!

We stopped in at Bardstown along the highway to look at the civil war museum and the historic original Bardstown. They'd moved some old bulidings from around the area to the one spot and it was a bit like the Telegraph Station in Alice Springs where you could walk around looking into them and seeing how people used to live.

... as she is quite talkative. Gabby did wonderful until we were about 64 miles from oiur destination. Then Gabby decided to take us the shortest way. We soon learned the "shortest" way meant very narrow roads, with no shoulders, hairpin curves and no way to get off the path. Pulling our 35foot 5th wheel with our long bed F-350 truck was a nail biting challenge but Mr. was driving and I must say he did quite well. We arrived and hour and half later ...

... Not sure how I'm going to fill the rest of my time. I guess I'll find something to do.

Fly out of the Azores on Thursday night (9/17), have an overnight in Lisbon, and get home Friday night.

I hope to post some updates and pics every night. Should be posted no later than 7 pm EST every night unless I'm out to the wee hours of the am.

A short walk from the hotel lead us to the Louisville Convention Center and my first Kentucky Starbucks. I made it a mocha since it doubled as my breakfast. I asked the barista if they carried city mugs and he replied with a slight southern tang, "Nope. Small market."

Right.

... s. He built an actual hotel in 1835 that was visited and praised by Charles Dickens, Jefferson Davis and 3 presidents. According to my informational magazine in the hotel (the one I'm reading in the photo...) army guys Sherman and Grant plotted a battle together in the hotel. That hotel burned to the ground and was replaced in 1869, only to be torn down in 1921. Al J ...

With two 8 hour days of work remaining before our trip I find it increasingly hard to focus and stay on task...there are still a couple of loose ends to tie up before leaving and I find myself obsessing about them while working. I've made most of my miscellaneous purchases. But I still have to put together our travel binder and figure out how to combine my clothes and personal items into one small carry-on piece of ...

... New River Gorge on our way through WV because some of the suggestions I had gotten mentioned that it would be beautiful. I had looked it up online and it did looked like it would be a great place to stop. It also looked like timing-wize it might be lunchtime when we got there. Our friend, Neesa, mentioned that every time she drove through that particular area it was always raining or snowing so to be very careful on our drive there.

The ...

Oh the wonders of nature and nature-stream restoration projects I volunteer on. Bernheim offers an abundance of programs for schools and families that educate and allow you to help conserve some nature!

Also, this park has many, many hiking trails. Yay hiking! We all know how much I love that. :)

... by a few more hours of wandering the streets, I was ready for bed, but in a bid to stave off the jet lag that was just licking its chops in anticipation, I attempted to stay up for my entire trans-pacific flight. And although I was able to do so, things got pretty weird, and I think it was a bad idea in terms of my interactions with people when I landed in the US. I felt like I couldn't have one normal conversation with anyone at customs, the ...

... to be called back to the land of the living, preferably in character, to report on the afterlife. We solemnly prepared for our arcane rite by lying out the instruments common to holding a successful seance - someone's Parker Brothers Ouiji Board, a couple candles, and a big bowl of Chee-tos. Not really knowing what else to do, and being too macho to want to join hands, we just sort of yelled out for John Belushi to show up. It was the sort of seance I think he would have ...