The Things You See on the Road

Okay - so everyone does not love being on the road.  We do!  Today we drove from Macon GA to Lexington KY.  It was cold and cloudy all day but that did not stop us from seeing some cool things.  When we were driving through TN, we saw the Smoky Mountains in all their "smoky" glory.  They were hazy and blue and beautiful. 

In KY we drove through the massive rock boundaries left by blasting the roadway through the mountains.  The cliffs of rock remind me of the rocky portions of M28 in the Upper Peninsula - except these are even more towering.  The rock is layered and the still cold weather has frozen huge flows of icicles into the layers.  It looked so awesome.

When we arrived in Lexington, we started to pull into a Comfort Inn, but Dennis remembered that we had stayed there last year - and we didn't like it all that much.  So, we pulled into the Hampton Inn instead.  It seems very nice.  We like our room.  We remembered a nice restaurant/pub that we had visited last year and decided to go there again.  They had this great beer - Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale - that I loved and wanted to taste again.  The restaurant, Saul Good (When you're here it's Saul Good), was very busy.  Lots of families and couples all eating and drinking and having fun.  I asked our waitress where we could buy the beer and she directed us to a store across the street.  You cannot make this up:  here is the picture.

Liquor Barn - what a concept!  Anyway, they had the beer and they were giving out samples of lots of Kentucky products including bourbon (how can this be bad?) and bourbon chocolate chip cookies.  The cookies cost $6.95 for six, so I decided I could make my own.

Tomorrow we will reach home and begin our re-entry and change of focus from vacation to Holy Week.  Looking forward to spending time with family and friends and looking forward to singing and celebrating Easter.