Blogs from Bardstown, Kentucky, United States, North America
Trip Four: Bardstown, KY
Published: October 9th 2010North America » United States » Kentucky » Bardstown
August 25th 2010
Bardstown Kentucky! I love it here. The people are so nice and its beautiful. I flew into Louisville and had to drive 30 minutes to Bardstown. Bardstown is the Bourbon capital of the world. As you drive along it looks like the Napa wine country but instead it is all bourbon distilleries. On the way to my hotel I saw Jim Beam and a place called 4 roses. The drive was beautiful and there was a really pretty rock wall. I took a bunch of pictures of the drive and with every trip I seem to be obsessed with taking pictures of houses and the landscape since it looks so different. I stayed at the Hampton Inn. The staff was fantastic! We actually used a hotel conference room as our recruiting location so I was in ... read more
Day Twenty One- July 4, 2010 Tampa to Montreal Tour
Published: July 4th 2010North America » United States » Kentucky » Bardstown
July 4th 2010
We have taken a lovely route home, US 31E, and passed through Elizabethtown to see Swope's Cars of Yesteryear Museum, but it is too early on a Sunday morning to get in. Off to Bardstown KY for our next stop. This is a historic town with a very cute downtown square. Brando and I have stayed at the Talbott Tavern and Inn on past trips through this area. This tavern has very good food, and five rooms upstairs all named after famous people who have stayed in their Inn. Its history dates back to the 1700's. Talbott Tavern is said to be the oldest western stagecoach stop in America as the westward expansion brought explorers from the east into Kentucky. According to legend, figures straight from the history books sought lodging here during their travels; as ... read more
October 7th 2009
We decided to spend a couple of weeks in middle America. First stop was Bardstown, Ky. A quaint little town in the green rolling hills of Kentucky. Fortunately, it is also part of the bourbon trail of kentucky. There are eight distilleries who have banded together to promote Americas whiskey. We were able to visit Makers Mark, Woodford Reserve, Jim Beam and Heaven Hill. Makers Mark and Woodford Reserve were in beautiful country and had fantastic tours (and whiskeys too). You get to see every facet of the production from fermenting the mash, to distillation, aging and bottling. We tasted the mash from the first day of fermentation to the last day when tasting actually does give you that bitter beer face! Fortunately distilling and aging does make a better drink. The Jim Beam tour was ... read more
June 18th 2005
We're sending out love from Bardstown, KY! That's right- we've made it to our final time zone. Surrounded by history of several wars and accents thick as gravy, we think we are about 10 days from the Virginia Coastline and we've been making the most of it. Missouri was bittersweet. The Ozarks were beautiful, but hilly! The scenery was fragrantly lush and mysteriously foggy, but that meant for buggy riding and sleeping. The drivers were either very cautious or willing to KILL, KILL, KILL. Yes, Missourians seem have a distaste for bicyclists. We even had a woman, who was driving in the opposite direction, slow down to 15mph, poke her head out her window, and call us every obscenity they have thought of in Missoury. She wasn’t that imaginative and, thus, ended up repeating herself several ... read more
