Four Points By Sheraton Louisville East

Headed off from Nasville this morning after piking out last night. We went to grab some dinner at an Applebee's Bar & Grill before heading to a bar with live music near the motel, After a steak and shrimp with mashed potatos and a couple of Mango flavoured cocktails, I was all done in and could barely waddle my way back to the motel. Only drinking water and eating fruit for the rest of the trip. I ...

Couldn't sleep so off we went at 3:45AM- heading South. Set our New talking Garmin GPS system for Taylorsville State Park near Taylorsville, KY. The GPS chatters away telling you how far, where to turn and if you make a mistake her favorite word is "recalculating". I say 'she' because the Garmin uses a soothing female voice. I suppose Garmin does that so when their information is incorrect it helps keep one calm.

We nicknamed the GPS ...

... the trams around the city.

Monday - day trip to Sintra

Tuesday - roam around the city some more then fly to Terceira, Azores (4 hours ahead of Louisville time).

I'll be in the Azores from 9/8 through 9/17 for work. Only thing on the agenda (other than my pesky job) for right now is a half day whale watching tour on ...

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.

... built the hotel that stands today in 1972 and named it after Dr. Galt.

After a quick coffee stop this morning, we walked around the downtown and happened upon the Art Car Weekend, an awesome display of crazy painted cars with things glued on them that lasted a good four blocks. Among my personal favorites were the dental car, the Wizard of Oz car, and the penny ...

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 ...

Thunder Over Louisville. What is this you may ask? The biggest party in Kentucky. Technically speaking, Thunder is an all day event... Starting as early as 4 AM and ending when ever the traffic clears enough for you to get home.

People go crazy for Thunder. They get there super early in the morning or even camp out the night before on the great lawn to get the best seats for the show. By the show, I mean, the biggest annual fireworks display in the world that is themed and lasts for ...

... 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. :)

Hey everyone! I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome you once again to my travel page - I'm hoping it'll be easier for interested parties to keep up with me while I'm away, and if everything goes according to plan, I'll have enough entertaining material to keep everyone else coming back each week. Today is my last day in the States. It has already become something of a fiasco just trying to get out of the country. Over the past weekend, it was ...