We woke up to a beautiful sunny day and took a short hike to Echo Spring. This spring is where the underground river inside Mammoth Cave comes to the surface. We hooked up and drove to Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace and then to his boyhood home. His log cabin birthplace is inside a magnificent stone monument. The boyhood home is a reconstruction using one of his neighbor’s log cabin.
We decided we needed to visit at least one bourbon distillery while in Kentucky. We drove to Makers Mark, the oldest operating bourbon whiskey distillery, and went on a tour. They made a big deal out of hand dipping the necks of the bottles in hot red wax. At the conclusion of the tour we got to taste 3 of their bourbons. Jim took a small sip from each and I had mine and finished his. Bourbon is not Jim’s thing.
We got a camp site at My Old Kentucky Home State Park. This park has a golf course, campground and the home which inspired the Stephen Foster song. He also wrote, “Oh Susanna”, “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair” and “Camptown Races”. My camera is on the blink and won’t work anymore. We drove to Walmart to look for a new one and Jim didn’t like any of them. We will try to get me a camera in Louisville at a Best Buy. There is another Casita trailer in camp and they are from Slidell, Louisiana. We talked to them and found out they went to the Bluebonnet Rally in Bandera, Texas for the first time this year when we didn’t get to make it because of the Pathfinder transmission trouble.
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