Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Lexington-Downtown

So it's the day of the long awaited trip and I have to be proud of the fact that I am sticking with traditional Gabe fasion, of course I mean by waiting till minutes before my trip to finish my packing. Its 5 hrs and 32 mins until its wheels up and we are on our way to the "Emerald Isle". Honestly I am more excited and anxious about this trip than I was about my 30 day Europe tour. Im gonna guess and say that its because I ...

... keep this old world spinning with a twinkle in its eye<br><br>Get out the map get out the map and lay your finger anywhere down<br><br>We'll leave the figuring to those we pass on our way out of town<br><br>Don't drink the water there seems to be something ailing everyone I'm gonna clear my head<br><br>I'm gonna drink that sun I'm gonna love you good and strong<br><br>while our love is good and young Joni left for South Africa ...

... 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>

... and had breakfast at the Waffle House. Then we went over to Juddmonte Farms to meet up with Grandma's friend, Jackie, who works there. She and a couple of the horse handlers gave us a custom tour.<br><br>We saw a lot of amazing horses on 2500 acres of lush Kentucky blue grass. But they have 4 stallions there that are multi-millionaire horses (but one was out of town, visiting South America, so ...

... Our guess is that herds of horses run at full gallop all day long and this reduces the potential of being injured at a dead end. For added safety, there are high white fences around EVERY tree in the pastures. · Most of the barns are painted black!!! · There are lots of "cooing" doves and red wing hawks but no magpies and no crows. Things we Learned: · The Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games will be held at the Kentucky Horse Park in 2010 and will be the largest ...

... shot down and twenty minutes later, the second tower was hit. At the time, he was too busy diverting all USA bound aircraft to Canadian airports and landing all other aircraft currently in US airspace ..... anywhere and NOW!!! Observed: · The houses in new subdivisions are built with the same dark-red colored brick so it looks like a military base. Not very appealing. · The dirt is only 6" deep, the rest is solid limestone. · Most of the barns are painted black!!! Things ...

... Jodie, who was flying from Nashville. It has been a long time since I was overseas, Spain in 1996 was my last time. Our first long leg of the trip was an overnight flight to Amsterdam. I have to say the international flight planes are a little different from the last time I flew. Each seat had an individual tv screen complete with on demand movies. The remote control to the tv even ...

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 ...

... had one of his men ride me down to get my bike & Nicky. Nicky hopped on the back, moaning his legs aren't long enough to hop on. English gent he was, I put my 2 hands together to give him a boost. He's never been a bike. He joined right in w/the crowd. He talked all night with Rudy's brother-in-law the whole time. Seems they had a lot in common. Mhoo played my disco for me for a while. Foreigners started coming in & Mhoo apologizes he has to stopped; he had good music either way. Mhoo ...