Ramada Hotel Shelbyville

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 ...

... frazzeled nerves but othewise safely.

Taylorsville State Park is lovely. The park is very quiet and peaceful. There is not much to do there other than walk trails but the park itself is very pretty. They have 30amp service and water but no sewers. The lots are nicely spaced and it was not crowded. The bathrooms were immaculate and the staff was very friendly and courteous.

We stayed until Tuesday and next stop is Bowling Green, KY.

... 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 ...

... we were driving through in WV were the Alleghany and the Shenandoah. The beauty is stunning. I am familiar with driving through the Smokey Mts around Chattanooga, TN but this was something altogether different. These mountain ranges that go up the east seaboard of the US are, I believe, the oldest mountain range in the world. Because they are so old they are not as tall as the Rockies so they don't have the bare rock and snow at the top ...

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. :)

... brethren. But it used to be that on the one hand, you adored them, saw them as your friend and ally, a place to romp and explore and learn. They are escape, freedom, a symbol of life as yet untamed and untethered. Brutally simple, gloriously unfettered by the chains we forge for ourselves in the name of making modern civilization so needlessly complex and aggravating. It's just you, the trees, the briars, and the sweet scent of honeysuckle on a humid July afternoon. On the other ...

... the hollow that was about a mile back into the woods behind Roman's house and where we'd determined Bigfoot probably lived. It was Larry, I believe, who said he thought Bigfoot was an alien who was collecting food in preparation to leave the planet. They were both pretty good theories, and with any luck, we'd have our answers soon. All of us lived on a steady diet of those old 16mm Bigfoot documentaries where guys in red vests arm themselves and go out into the rainy Pacific ...