Hampton Inn Lexington I-75

... don't know what to expect from Ireland, don't get me wrong It's gonna be a blast even if the highlight is gonna be the sceanary. <br> Just a little side note to everyone, (or to the one person that decides to read this), I have never been good at keeping up with these things, journals, blogs whatever. My intention is to write in this whenever possible but the fun may overtake me and I might not get around to it, but if ...

"Get Out The Map"<br><br><br><br>The saddest sight my eyes can see is that big ball of orange sinking slyly down the trees<br><br>Sitting in a broken circle while you rest upon my knee this perfect moment will soon be leaving me<br><br>Suzanne calls from Boston the coffee's hot the corn is high<br><br>And that same sun that warms your heart will suck the good earth dry<br><br>With everything it's opposite enough to keep you crying ...

... a lovely restuarant called deSha's. We had a great meal complimented by the sweet southern price tag! <br> Kentucky definitely treated us well, we enjoyed ourselves thourougly. Sarah is pretty sure that if her mom wound up here, she'd never come home! While it's raining now, we are enjoying the "Kamper Kitchen" and looking forward to the next destination. Tenessee, here we come!<br>

We took off with the fifth wheel up to Lexington, KY, where we would see some champion horses at Juddmonte Farms. That evening, when we got in to Lexington, we checked in at the RV park at the Kentucky Horse Park. It's quite a nice area. Then we went and ate at Bob's Big Boy, where Ashley had (what else??) a bacon cheeseburger! ;-)<br><br>On Saturday morning, we started the day off in fine Southern ...

... try to be drinking mint juleps in a bar with a good TV at 6:24pm - but we discovered that Berea (and many other towns and counties hereabouts) is a dry town - so no bars, no mint juleps! Which would explain why "Derby parties" are all the thing, you can only drink mint juleps in the privacy of someone's home.... So we missed that. BUT we did stumble on a Berea eatery with live bluegrass music ...

... powered the pounding / pulverizing equipment at a gunpowder mill (a major employer at that time). Gunpowder is made from saltpeter, sulfur, charcoal and this one produced 140,000lbs per year. · Kentucky Horse Park - This 1,200 acre facility has stadiums, arenas and an RV park where equestrian associations / riding clubs hold major competitions i.e.: jumping, dressage, Arabian show horses, carriage horses and of course race horses. We saw draft horses, quarter horses ...

... of May. · At our resort, we met a very nice couple (Chris & Elba Fitzwater) from New Hampshire. They were here to finalize the purchase of their retirement home in Richmond, KY. Chris just retired from his job as an Air Traffic Controller in Boston and was on duty when one of his airplanes flew into the Twin Towers in New York on 9/11. At his Enroute Controller position, he lost his on-screen transponder data and communication capability (because the terrorists shut it off ...

... solution. How lucky could I be having this failure in the parking lot of a motorcycle dealer and they knew what to do to solve the problem. Amazing. After this one and half hour delay I continued north and found some terrific roads that twist and turn through the hills of North Carolina and Tennessee. The most famous twisty road in the area is known as The Dragon that begins at Deals Gap and runs north. In eleven miles there are three hundred and ...

Today, I drove from Louisville to Lexington to have lunch with a friend. The horse ranches around the area are gorgeous -- clearly gentlemen ranchers, not true farmers. I saw lots of men in camouflage, so I decide NOT to walk in the woods, lest I be mistaken ...

... the refugee camp they live in this time around. Mother was very grateful & Majon was ever so happy she had blue eyes. The whole group (long necks) came over to see. I stayed there the whole day w/the family. They fixed me dinner rather good, but I couldn't eat the little fishes w/their eyes still looking at me. Met a 58yr old English Chap named Nicholas whilst there. We agreed to meet at Lakeside restaurant later that evening. Majon fell in love w/1 of my 3 sons & she wanted to keep ...