Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Day 13-Our Old Kentucky Home

He said: Raining this morning. Left at 7:30 anyway. The rain and yesterdays storm contributed to some unforeseen site seeing, as I missed a turn and added 10 miles to my trip. Rain continued till about 9:30, the rest of the day was overcast but dry. All in all a nice day of riding, 95 percent through farm country, half horses, half cows. Starting to meet more riders on the road, almost all of them going west to east. So far from Vancouver Wa., San Diego, a couple from California, and two gents from England. I guess the terrain would be characterized as rolling hills. For the most part if you peddled hard downhill you could make it up most of the uphills. Staying at a nice state campground and there are actually 5 or 6 other tenters here where we are. Tomorrow we are on to Mammoth Caves about 76 miles from here. Should be interesting. All the electronic gizmos we have cell phones, emails, Skype, blog comments keep us close to everybody which is nice. Thanks. 103 miles
She said: Took off about 3 hours or so after Paul and caught up to him about lunch time. I was glad to see it stop raining. I stopped at a few historic spots on the way. In Harrodsburg I saw Thomas and Nancy Lincoln’s marriage cabin (Abe’s parents). They built a chapel surrounding the cabin in the 1930’s to preserve it. About 20 miles from there I stopped at the Lincoln Homestead Museum-Thomas’ home until he was 25, the home Nancy lived in with her Uncle’s family (and where Thomas proposed). Thomas was a blacksmith and furniture maker and there were some pieces made him in the home. There was also his blacksmith shop. Pretty interesting stuff. The ride today was very pretty, beautiful farms, many with horses that looked like they could have been race horses. We are camping at the Old Kentucky Home State Park tonite. We met several west to east Transam riders staying here tonite too. They told us we have a beautiful ride ahead of us, and that the terrain should seem like a piece of cake compared to the Appalachians-just have to get over the Ozarks. Looking forward to the Mammoth Caves-will post pictures when we get there. Oh yeah-For all you Bourbon lovers-Jim Beam distillery is next door to the campground. One of the guys who works here said we don't have to watch out for coal trucks around here-just booze wagons!





Not looking too bad after the first 100+ day!


Abe's mom's house


Abe's dad's place

Dad's blacksmith shop
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  1. UnknownAugust 6, 2009 at 7:47 AM

    Paul and Sharon,

    I have really enjoyed following your trip. I would have commented earlier, however Ben had to show me how to do it!!. Saw he and Meg yesterday, brought up some of her stuff and had dinner overlooking a river at a place in Dover. They both look great and seem to be settling in just fine. Paul your mileage is impressive and you don't look bad as a Willie Nelson lookalike. Sharon the pictures are great and liked the ones of Abe's cabins. You two are very lucky to be doing this, hopefully I might attempt the same next year. Take care, and will check in later.

    Bill

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  2. UnknownAugust 6, 2009 at 1:17 PM

    Does the 103 mile include the 10 you had to back track? I think Sharon should just get a big " Follow Me" sign like you see at airports and you might make it to the west coast before you have to deal with snow in the Rockies. We're having a short stretch of nice weather here for a change; no rain or humidity. Back to the soup on Sunday. Pedal on!

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