Blogs from Kentucky, United States, North America - page 36

Day 1: New Brunswick, NJ -- Frankfort, KY (730 miles) So we have finally departed!! Today was quite a day... about 11 hours on the road. We have, thus far, followed the suggested route from AAA, leaving us in Frankfort, KY....about 30 miles west of Louisville. Here is a quick summary of the day's sights and sounds before I crash: New Jersey- We passed about 36 Dunkin Donuts as well as 80 road-kill deer on the way out of the good ol' garden state. We drove SW through PA, stopping at Cabelas "The World's Foremost Outfitters" for hunting and outdoor pursuits. This place was crazy!! 250,000 sq. ft. Full of taxidermied animals and even a waterfall!! (I bought a can of isopropane butan for the stove). You could buy everything in camouflage-- i think they even ... read more

April 1 Departure from Spring Creek, our Kentucky place, was unhurried and stress free. I decided to put both cats in the PT Cruiser, rather than one in each car. Our Alaska caravan consists of the five year old PT, a three year old Toyota Prius hybrid, and a Cessna 150. My son Scott and Maria, my adventure travel partner, have been very cooperative in trying to control the weight loaded into the trailer and the cars. Still, I am concerned about the PT Cruiser’s ability to handle a fully loaded trailer for 5,000 miles, including the Rocky Mountains and the Alaska Highway. Despite our weight control efforts, 7 months worth of gear for three people and two cats is a lot of stuff. Today was my first ever drive through western Kentucky. So far, the ... read more

Well on Thursday it was really the last day steve and I could hang out because he works Friday-Sunday and on Sunday morning i will be heading to San Francisco. Then finally i will get to see my Sal, ive been waiting to see her :) Well anways we decided something American and head to some batting cages, and man was this place the biggest dump we could find. It took about 20min to actually fire up the Batting Cage and then we were only allowed to play with the Softballs because it had just rained, anyways we smacked around a few balls and then we decided to play on Americas worst Mini golf course ever.... and your prob thinking it cant be that bad but No, it was crap. Steve and i decided it would ... read more

Date: 7/01/05 Location: Jackson, KY Living this past week didn’t seem so bad, but looking back it seems a miracle we survived it: -At auditions we had 23 kids show up. Our show usually has 60. Ricki-Ticki-Tavi story is cut, as are a few characters and groups are made smaller (Monkeys, Wolves and Snakes) -The number of kids continued to dwindle as the week went by. For some reason everyone had a dentist appointment this week. And I mean everyone. By Wednesday four of our monkeys had decided that they didn’t want to be in the show (which I attempted not to take personally) which left us with 7 monkeys (usually we have 18) one of which would not be back until dress rehearsal on Friday. -Buck (the Buck)’s father got into a car accident midway ... read more

Hello Everyone, Well over 2 Continents, 5 States and 5 Airports i finally made it, and man what a DAY! I started of at adelaide airport at 6am Monday, i flew virgin to Melborune where i boarded United Airlines and flew to Sydney. I waited in Sydney for 2 hours and then boarded United Airlines again and we set off to LAX (Los Angeles Airport) I got a nice little 85 year old lady next to me named Wanda and she only had one hearing aid (she lost one at the airport) and with the damn noise of the plane and that weird air blowing noise, i couldnt really hear anything she said. She was nice though. They put me in Economy Plus (it was suppose to have more room, but that still had jack shit ... read more