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…
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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…
We had planned to follow a National Parks parkway called the Natchez Trace out of New Orleans (prior post here) that runs nearly all the way north to another city known for its musical roots, Nashville. Unfortunately, a severe…
If you Google New Orleans, “The Big Easy”, you’re bound to find hundreds of travel blogs with great itineraries that will fill your allotted time. I could bore you with one more and for our own travel records I’ll…
Y’all know that southern states get hot and no, it ain’t a dry heat. We have not spent any time in that special kind of hell, but I understand it can only be described as “hotter than blue blazes”,…
The word swamp conjures up tangled vegetation heavy with Spanish moss, fetid, dark and sinister waters, oppressive heat, and countless things that creep, crawl, slither, and will strike. Too many Hollywood films have portrayed the swamp as a menacing…
