Last night a big thunderstorm rolled through, but when we woke up it was warm and sunny and there wasn't much rain in the forecast for our trip back to Louisville. We started our morning trying to upload updates to the blog because our rooms couldn't access the wi-fi last night. We sat in the lobby and did our chores and finally hit the road around 11am.
Right out of the gate, our route put us back on one of those back country roads in the mountains with all of the hairpin turns, not so great pavement and lots of coal trucks. I wasn't really ready to concentrate so much on my driving so I was going really slow and not having as much fun as I should have. Once we completed several climbs and descents over the mountains we got back on to less crazy, but still curvy country roads for the rest of our day. The majority of our ride was spent under cloud cover but there were a few sun spots along the way to brighten things a little.
Around 2pm we were getting hungry for lunch and Steve spotted signs for the Lake Cumberland Resort. After crossing the lake via the Wolf Creek Dam, we drove in the 5 mile entrance road to the resort to check it out. It turned out to have a nice little restaurant with a great view of Lake Cumberland. We got a table right by the window and enjoyed some good food while we watched boats and jet skis having fun on the water. It was a nice little surprise to our day, to find this beautiful state park and resort. Good job Steve!
After lunch we continued making our way back up to Louisville. We did some more of the Daniel Boone National Forest and got to gaze at beautiful, green, rolling countryside all day long. Our route took us up through Fort Knox which was kind of cool. Steve was able to snap some shots of the depository as we went by.
From there the rest of our ride in to Louisville was dealing with traffic through the suburbs. We made it to our hotel, had some dinner and now that's another day done. Tomorrow Steve and I ride back to his house and Dad makes his way up to Valparaiso, IN to meet Sandy for her class reunion this weekend. It's going to be an all highway day for us as we have about 400 miles to get back home. We'll post tomorrow night and share the last of our trip with you all.
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Great pics! Maybe you shoulda stopped and made a withdrawal at Ft. Knox....
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ReplyDeleteI just figured out (I have to do this every year) how to leave a comment. The trip sounds and looks like such fun - the scenery is just so lush. Loved the sound on the Tail of the Dragon video. Sounds like you had a very nice time. Drive carefully back.
Jan and Del