Today we left at 8:25am and temps were 52 degrees. We put on some heated gear since we’d be doing highway driving. We rode north on I65 until the Bluegrass Parkway. This morning there was no wind and mostly smooth roads. We saw a lot of RVs of all sizes today, at least 20 in the first hour. One was a big class A pulling a pickup with a golf cart in its truck bed.
We made our first stop after 100 miles in Bardstown, Ky for a quick fuel up. We switched over to Eastern time zone, skipping the 10am hour entirely today.
Soon we saw distillery signs, like Heaven Hill that we’ll visit on our trip back here in over a week. We rode past the rick houses and could smell the bourbon!
We rode on I64 for 40 minutes to lunch, and arrived at a Subway at 12:15. A man complimented our bike, saying it was a Cadillac and a “real good setup”. We decided to eat there instead of the picnic that Rob had planned at a rest stop about 30 minutes away, since we were hungry. It was then that Michele realized she put on her heated jacket and other liners in the wrong order this morning.
A blurry dinosaur.
The Kentucky Castle is a posh hotel ($600+ a night). Rob thought the meals should be included for that rate.
Temps were nice after lunch and warmed up quickly to low 70s.
Around 3pm we arrived at our hotel, the Sleep Inn and Suites. We covered about 350 miles today. The lady checking us in upgraded us to a king suite for free, which was really nice! Michele is always annoyed by hotels with noisy A/C units, like the one at last night’s hotel. Hotels spend money to make the lobby fancy but then the rooms have a junky A/C unit. They are all the same brand, too. The manufacturer is so shortsighted about that. Our room tonight has a quiet one, thankfully! Tonight is our last hotel of this trip and we head on home.
