I saw an announcement that one of my favorite comedians, Taylor Tomlinson, was going to be in Knoxville and the tickets were inexpensive (by California standards) so I grabbed a couple, leaving poor Doug to sort out the other…
As we drove up the hill to the campground we passed a sign for Rocky Top TN so I immediately broke into song. As a child of the 70s, I was as shocked that Doug didn’t know the song…
Ahhhh Kentucky – known for the Kentucky Derby, bourbon, KFC, and Daniel Boone. We’d enjoyed bourbon in Louisville, thoroughbreds and Derby winners in Lexington, and now it was time to complete the other Kentucky items on our list as…
Lexington KY is home to the Kentucky Horse Park. Before you stop reading, I don’t know my Fox Trotter from my Appaloosa! I was never one of those 13-year-old girls with a room full of plastic ponies (in fact…
From Louisville KY we were headed to Lexington and while we have become state capitol city geeks, I promise you, heading through Frankfort was the most direct route. It was! Louisville had also peaked my interest in bourbon. We’d…
Kentucky is known as “the bluegrass state”, but when I think of Kentucky, I think Kentucky Derby, bourbon, KFC, and Daniel Boone. With this in mind and knowing that my friend Katherine had grown up in Louisville, I asked…
Kentucky law gives you just 48 hours upon entry into the state before you must begin drinking bourbon.* Since we’d scheduled a Mammoth Cave tour (post here) for our first day in Kentucky, we knew day 2 would require…
Mammoth Cave is just that – the world’s longest known cave system with more than 400 miles explored to date. This national park in central Kentucky lies in a limestone belt that extends from southern Indiana through Kentucky and…
They say a friend is someone you call when you need bail money, but your best friend is the one beside you saying, “the party’s not over until the mugshots are taken!”. I hope everyone finds that BFF at…
We had planned to drive the Natchez Trace Parkway from Natchez MS all the way to Nashville, but a 2-week northern Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee detour was required to avoid tornados in the area (post here). We finally got…
