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Day 20 - Louisville & Lexington - Kentucky

A travel blog entry by traceystravels

... I met one of the trainers, Bobby Barrett, who was nice enough to stop and pose for a pic for me. Thanks Bobby. And from there it was off to the Churchill Downs Museum to see all the fabulous trophies and walls of winners. They show a quick film about the Kentucky Derby in an incredible oval auditorium where the film rotates around the oval above your head. The sound comes from all directions and you spin and turn on small ...

There were 3 now there are 2 and 1

A travel blog entry by astridtje

Two have made it to the safe side of the Appalachia Mountains. One stayed in Marietta, Ohio.
Lexington is a guess, Kentucky is not.

Hopefully the Ohio river wont back up the Muskingum river in Marietta, Ohio. Will keep blogging if power stays ...

Giddy up

A travel blog entry by thecrazystrain

Just pulled into the Horse Park and besides not being able to open my window to pay the parking attendant no real excitement unless you call driving 35 ft of steel boring. We set off around 6:50 this AM from Casa de Strain and made good time. We stopped once at a ...

The Best of Country

A travel blog entry by questwest2

... all that she was hoping for. Her brother, Todd, lives in San Diego and has been working on her for a while to make the move west. Finally all the stars aligned and she decided to make the leap. When she asked if I would drive west with her, I never considered not doing it. Time alone with her, seeing parts of the country I have never seen before and in a way I likely never would sounded very inviting ...

Bourbon and horses baby! Heaven

A travel blog entry by dktravels

... car but prior to this we visited some horse shops and the keeneland racecourse and managed to get a beautiful limited edition print for grandad and a lovely silk scarf for gran! Derek wanted to bring home a statue of a drunken horse that holds up a wine bottle - was great but way too hard to bring home with us. Hopefully we can find one back in Australia at some stage. So back off to the airport we went to fly to new York via charlotte getting in somewhere near ...

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