Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Aug. 5, 2013

Into Ohio

Today we headed north from Bardstown toward Ohio. We generally travel using maps and two(sometimes three) forms of electronic navigation.  My navigation program tends to plot the most direct route.  That means that if two large roads meet at an apex but there is a smaller road that avoids the two longer sides the program will route over the smaller road.  Usually not a problem but you have to be careful because the program does not know how small the road or what the road surface  is.  Just west of Lexington we had just such a situation.  There was a small road that avoided going into Lexington.  The road looked fine so we took it.  Small country road similar to many we have been on.  Freshly resurfaced and very smooth.  Within a hundred yards the road narrowed into a country lane with a lovely tree canopy.  Still very comfortable driving but at a reduced speed and had to be careful passing oncoming traffic.  The really neat thing was that the road passed through something we had been looking for our entire stay in Kentucky – miles and miles and miles of horse farms with manicured pastures, beautiful ponds and lakes,  and large and stately stables and homes.  Beautiful!  The only difference from the postcard pictures is that all the fences were brown, not white.  In fact we have seen very few white fences at all.  Probably one of the prettiest stretches of road we have seen this trip.  At one point we turned a small bend and crossed a VERY narrow bridge over a creek/small river.  Just upstream from the bridge was a dam creating a pond in the creek.  At the edge of the pond on one end of the dam was an old mill.  All of this in a little hollow with trees all around.  The whole road was filled with picture ops and Sue took lots of them.  Unfortunately we had a small setback.  Once in Ohio we stopped at a rest stop.  Several miles after leaving the rest stop Sue could not find her camera.  Returning to look for it would have been quite involved and quite problematic.  So – all we have of that lovely road are memories.  We called a semi-local Costco that was on our way for tomorrow and found that they had several of the exact camera in stock.  She will have little interruption in her picture taking and only the loss of one days pictures.



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