Guess what? It rained all through Friday night and all through Saturday! We packed up and managed to leave Charleston, NC, in good time, despite the pouring rain. Picture Terry in short shorts, bare legs, feet in crocs, sticking out from under a large blue poncho with rain cascading down, while hitching on the trailer and stowing everything away. His shorts got wet so he had to change into dry clothes. Travelling was like doing water sports, aqua planing would be about right!
We travelled along the I64 through West Virginia, to Huntington, over the river into Ohio, just so we could say we had been there and then back over the river into West Virginia again , only to go into Kentucky about 5 minutes later.
We continued along the I64, skirting Lexington and made a small detour to visit Frankfort. What is Frankfort famous for I hear you ask? Well, it is the Kentucky State Capital, so we thought it might be nice to have a look at it. It is very small, but has a nice little Capitol Building. It took us about 5 minutes to drive right through the middle of Frankfort, take some pictures of the Capitol and be back on the I64 again.
We found a nice campsite at a Marina at Shelbyville, about 40 miles away from Louisville. Thank goodness it had stopped raining when we arrived. While sorting out the inside of the trailer, I was padding around in my socks and went to the fridge only to squelsh in water - the carpet was soaked at the back end. We think water had sprayed up while travelling and got in through the slide out. We had to soak it all up with towels!
Sunday.
The weather was good today - sun shining most of the time.
Sally thought that she would be well enough to go into Louisville, so we decided to take a ride on the Riverboat - The Belle of Louisville.The Belle of Louisville is the oldest surviving Sternwheel riverboat in the USA. It is quite magnificent. We had a front seat view from the top deck. We travelled for an hour up the Ohio river, then for an hour back down again. We wandered to the back end and watched the big red stern paddle wheel pushing us a long.
We chatted to a lot of people. A group from a local church, who were showing a refugee family from Iraq how to have a good time in Louisville. This involved a KFC meal on the riverboat. Of course, Louisville is the home town of Colonel Saunders. We also found out that it is the hometown Papa Johns Pizza, Taco Bel, The Slugger Baseball Bat and of Mohammed Ali.
We also chatted to a guy who had just retired from Boston to Louisville. His job was spectroscopy in the aeronautical world and he told us that as part of his work he had launched rockets at Redstone and been present at a number of underground tests in Nevada, scary. His favourite claim to fame was that in 1962 he had jammed with Flatt and Scrugs while they were on tour in Boston. There was also a huge group of people from a black church in Louisville having an outing on their Family Day - all 180 of them. All great fun.
Afterwards we sat on the bank of the the Ohio and sung a verse of 'The Banks of the Ohio', then drove across a bridge to the other side. We found a nice little park on the North bank of the Ohio, which had a lovely little ice cream parlour, where we had a lovely 'little' ice cream sundae. The Ice cream shop was by a beautiful house that was just like something out of Disney. Of course when we crossed the Ohio River we were then in Indiana State, another first.
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