Holiday Inn Express New Albany

Hi All - getting ready for my big trip tomorrow (which is totally going to suck). Anyway, here's a brief overview of my itinerary.

Saturday afternoon - leave Louisville, long layover in Philly - arrive in Lisbon at 9 am local time. Lisbon is 5 hours ahead of Louisville.

Sunday - try and stay awake before I can check into my hotel by ...

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.

Well, Louisville was supposed to be a brief stop over to prevent us from driving 10 consecutive hours, but let's be honest: Louisville is an awesome town. We got a super deal on Priceline and stayed at the four star Galt House Hotel and Suites in the downtown district. This is the fourth installment of the Galt House; the original was the residence of Dr. Galt in the early ...

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 ...

... Don't worry though... if you don't want to sign up for the military you don't have to do participate.

A word of warning: the Kentucky side is always packed. And the closer you are to the Great Lawn, the drunker the people are. So if you have a family, stay away from the great lawn. If you want a quieter version of the Thunder proceedings, head over to the Indiana side. Come on... It's just across the river! And you get the same show! Just with out all of the hustle and bustle of ...

... 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. :)

Louisville is best done at night. Our night life is no Vegas. But it is pretty good.

The places featured in the album:

4th Street Live: A clubbing hot spot. But only if you're 21+. Still pretty fun with all of the restaurants and shopping.

Cafe 360: The local hookah bar. It has a wide variety of food on its menu. It's open 24 hours, 7 ...

... of the Magna Carta (which had been sent for display at the 1939 New York World Fair and when war broke out, was kept in America for the duration), and other key documents from Western history. It also held the ...

... for me, and too many oaths, though I did like the wolf and bear patches, and the thing with the beads on it), but I never read or sold Grit magazine, which I always figured to more the domain of people who lived somewhere like my other grandparents (the ones with Hitler's head in the basement, if you read that one): very 1950s, full of war vets and fresh European wives who would fill the manicured lawns with various types of gnomes and other ornaments (even my own grandmother, who ...