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North America » United States » Kentucky » Elizabethtown August 13th 2013

13 August, 2013 Here are the highlights on the 5 states we passed through since my last blog entry. VERMONT We drove across the southern part of Vermont on Hwy 9 from Brattleboro to Bennington. There was a lot of traffic, mostly out of state license tags, just a very few from Vermont. Wilmington, about halfway across, was so pretty with flowers everywhere. Lots of flowerbeds, hanging baskets and window boxes full of flowers. Even the Welcome to Wilmington signs had flower boxes. Vermont and New Hampshire are such beautiful states. NEW YORK We drove to Troy then south to Albany. There was a lot of traffic heading south toward that Big City we prefer to avoid. Unlike in Vermont, most of the cars had New York tags. We drove from Albany to Binghamton, then into ... read more
Pennsylvania farmlands
Locust Lake
Beautiful Hillside


Tonight I witness one of the festival’s signature competitions, and possibly the most insane sporting event in existence. Before then, I had some time to kill. I used it to explore the childhood of a revered American. The Kentucky Knobs is where the limestone plateau of central Kentucky meets the Ohio River valley. It consists of hundreds of triangle shaped hills carved by streams. The hills are triangular instead of rounded because this area was never covered by glaciers. In the early 1800s, this was the western frontier of the US. Abraham Lincoln Birthplace One of the many settlers who came into this area was one Thomas Lincoln. He moved around a lot; he had already lived in three other states before coming to Kentucky. He eventually bought a farm called Cave Spring fo... read more
Cave Spring
Symbolic cabin
Along Knob Creek




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