Renfro Valley Heritage Inn And Suites Mount Vernon

... 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.
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 ...

... br>So we begun our trip today at 4:30 AM from PeeWee Valley, KY. We're driving straight through all states towards Florida. All 14 or so hours. How exciting!? Actually not that exciting. We were smooth sailing through Kentucky with no problems. We stopped in mine and Diana's favorite city. Rich-City (Richmond), Kentucky for some breakfast at Waffle House.







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... Power Tour-beautiful. Hung out with a bunch of great friends for a while and eventually went back to the hotel to re-group for dinner. Went to a recommended bbq joint nearby with the Cherry Bomb group and had a great time.
It's raining and thundering out right now. Wonder what's in store for tomorrow...

Can't believe it's almost over!!!

Amy

P.S. Happy Birthday Mom and Steve!!

... 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 ...

Kentucky has been a great state, the only obvious problem is that most of the state seems to be "dry", we spent a very nice weekend at Levi Jackson State Park with Bill and Audrey. After selling their rig to us they decided that they didn't want to give up the RV life completely and have brought a much smaller rig. The interesting thing about the state parks is that everyone lights fires in a fire pit, imagine its about 30 degrees ...

... dive into the water while mine was arms and legs flailing trying to twist my body to be head first into the water (which I coincidentally did not make it to because of the flailing arms and legs). Anyways, it was an adrenaline rush; a little way to remind us all that life is fragile and also incredibly resiliant, even if I throw myself off a cliff into the Nile I will still be breathing in a raft at the bottom. Andrea, Leah, and I had several ...

... replicating the original café and kitchen, but the food now on sale was just as you can buy anywhere. We headed for the Daniel Boone national forest, of the famous pioneer and trapper. Stopped at a scenic overlook and heard a tremendous sound of whistling through the trees. It was cicadas, which are large flying bugs about 2 inches long. They emerge en mass in their millions every 17 years from underground, then within a short space of time ...

... We had snowmelt for refreshments!!!! I am in recovery mode......we rode a short 3 miles today!! Bought a half gallon of milk today for less than $3......in Yosemite!!!!. I'm about to have a chocolate shortage!!! They have 18 miles of bike paths, so we have enjoyed our journerys around the valley and to the trails. We haven't used the ...

maybe one day i'll get around to adding all the pins to the map, but let's just say i've hitch-hiked across the US twice now and visited 48/50 states (alaska and north dakota are the missing 2). i've also been to canada, costa rica, jamaica, wales, england, ireland, amsterdam, and belgium. for the time being, i'm rooted down in my home state of Kentucky and trying to ...

... leave. Now Jayne doens't work on the Bay Bridge if you are heading from San Fran as you are on the lower level and when we got of she decided that she was still on her break (I'm sure she used to be a nurse at the Vales, couldn't get back from her breaks on time!!!). We had no idea where we were going so just headed off to San Jose. That's when Jayne kicked in and said we should have gone another way but looking at my google map we had actually gone the route we had planned to go ...