as tour guides by introducing our Colorado friends, Adele and Steve, to our home state and our little corner of the world.
Picking them up at the Nashville airport, our first stop was Mammoth Cave. The longest known cave system in the world, over 400 miles have been mapped. Volunteers continue to discover additional rooms and passageways. Taking the Historical Tour, we learned the history as well as geological features. Please do not ask us to expound, after all this was just a 1 hour tour.)
Wanting to show them what we consider to be the prettiest part of our state, and with a circle tour in mind, we headed to Bluegrass Country, aka Horse Country. It also happens to be the birthplace of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail. No, we did not visit all 60+ distilleries, but we did taste in four of them.
Looking for Maker's Mark we explored a bit more of the area than we had planned.
Lesson learned, regardless of what the GPS says, follow the signs.
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We also tasted at Four Roses. For us, it was a bit underwhelming, and we have no photos.
Buffalo Trace was high on our tasting list, but we were unable to get a tour reservation. You can see why we chose not to stand in line for the free tasting.
Taking the Old Frankfurt Pike Historic Scenic Byway to Nicholasville, we enjoyed brunch at one of ABN's favorite spot, Luna's Coffee, Wine and Butterfly Cafe.
We marveled at the many times we have ridden our tandem on this road and other similar narrow, curvy, hilly roads on the Horsey Hundred bike ride; even more so that we lived to tell about it!
The tour of Kentucky continued as we turned west toward our home. With pride we showed our guests around our small town neighborhood. It just happened they were in town on a Tuesday.
Having become close friends with Adele and Steve over the past 7 years, the only perception of us they had was in the context of our RV. Now they know the rest of the story. Looking forward to seeing them again in February!
