Louisville, KY
September 3, Saturday: Nashville, IN to Louisville, KY
Another hot night – left the AC on until 4am when it finally dropped to about 70 degrees. We made the scenic drive straight south of Nashville and across into Louisville on route 46.
We stopped at the at the Kentucky Derby Museum and we loved it. We got to tour the Churchill Downs race track. Tickets for a reserved seat is $400 plus and are sold out for 2012, except by resellers and their prices are astronomical. We wanted to stop at the visitor center to see a multimedia presentation on Kentucky, but the showtimes didn’t match up to our schedule.
After Churchill Downs, we drove southeast on the interstate and stopped at Jim Beam’s distillery where Jack got a hat and bourbon chocolate covered cherries. We stayed the night at a nice campground in Elizabethtown. The weather is turning stormy due to the after effects of a hurricane and they are forecasting steady rain for the next few days, so we decided to bypass Knoxville and head straight home.
We drove more than 7,000 miles on this trip. It was probably one of our most eclectic trips and involved a lot of diverse history: FDR and the Roosevelts, North Carolina's First Governor, West Point, fur trapping and trading, Northwest logging, ore mining and Great Lake transportation, and Charles Lindburgh; plus geology and geography of the many waterfalls flowing from Minnesota rivers into Lake Superior and exploring the river towns along the Mississippi. We thoroughly enjoyed our trip and look forward to completing the Great River Road all that way down to the Gulf of Mexico. But, for now, its great to be home.
