Thursday, June 29

On the road, again

We woke up in Jonesboro, Arkansas trying to make a plan for the day.  Do you know how hard that is when you have half a country to explore??

So after some thought and map studying we decided to head toward Kentucky.  That would give us Missouri and Kentucky to mark off on our map.  We had each picked out something we wanted to see on the way home.  Abram chose the caves (excellent choice), Walter chose the Louisville Slugger Museum in Louisville, KY, and Katie chose the Horse Park in Lexington, KY.

Louisville was about 6 hours from Jonesboro.  So we started driving and driving and driving, and driving.

Several things from the day's drive:
-Arkansas, Missouri, and eastern Tennessee have lots of farm land.  There were so many large green tracts of land it was mesmerizing.  We are pretty sure we spotted corn, soybean and several experimental fields of rice.  Made me want to get home and plant a garden.
-Kentucky doesn't believe in rest stops.  We didn't see a single one in the whole 6 hours we were driving.
-The Mississippi River is really big and the bridge is even bigger.  Good thing I was driving.
-Some states are very proud of their ditches...they name them and put bridges over them.  In their defense, some of those ditches looked more like rivers.  I was impressed.
-So much HAY!!!  So much HAY!!
-The part of these states that we saw makes me think that everybody here owns either a herd of cow or several horses (I know that is not true, but there were lots and lots of cows and horses everywhere you looked).

After all the driving, we ended up in Louisville, KY.  We were definitely hillbillies come to the big city.  The kids couldn't walk down the street because they kept looking up at the buildings and running into each other.  Walter and I were so nervous we were going to get lost we had the maps in our hands the whole time.  Luckily a local took pity on us and got us headed in the right direction to find a meal.  We are on the 8th floor of the Holiday Inn and have such a different view than every other night so far.  Tomorrow should be interesting, we are off to the Louisville Slugger Museum...Walter is so excited!!