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Wednesday, September 3, 2008, campground, Shelbyville, Kentucky
We slept in a little bit since it was a luxury to be in a cabin. After eating, we biked through downtown Louisville on Hwy. 60 in the direction of St. Matthews where we would find a Best Buy [I had reluctantly agreed to buy another video camera, the cheapest one, so we could continue videoing the journey]. Riding through the city was fun. It's a diversion from the beautiful countryside and spices up the journey. Maybe everyone isn't this way, but I always love to cycle through downtown areas of cities because the traffic offers an interesting challenge, and it's usually not too fast, and it's fun to look at the shops and people along the way. It started to rain lightly on us right about the time we passed by a bike shop. I bought Paul a new front fender, which he definitely needed for the rainy weather, and tightened up my handlebars with some new nuts (my quick release had bent from repeated tightening and wouldn't work). Shortly after we left the bike store, a truck with a load of angle iron spilled its contents on the road as it was coming to a red light, so I helped them reload it. Before long we were near St. Matthews, so we locked the bikes at a Steak n Shake and drove to Best Buy. Unfortunately, they didn't have any open-box-specials, so we went to Circuit City. We ended up buying a machine that could make DVDs from cameras and video cameras for only $169 (another open-box special). Then we went to Wendy's before arriving back at the bikes. We rode through thoroughbred country, past some beautiful houses today. After awhile we stopped at Kentucky Fried Chicken [Everyone wanted to eat there since we were in Kentucky] and drinking our family large soda, which we refill about 5-10 times before finishing. It's quite a sight: All the children have large straws and huddle around the cup drinking together as the cup quickly drains into their stomachs. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat... We met some nice ladies there who gave us directions to a campground, but we decided to go past there to Shelbyville, where Colonel Sanders had his family restaurant (The Colonel's Lady) next to his house before he died. [I had eaten there as a boy visiting my grandmother in the 70s when Colonel Sanders was still alive, but I never saw him.] We looked around the restaurant but didn't eat. The rain started falling before we found the campground, but stopped while we were setting up the tent. The mosquitoes were bad. They can't easily get through the barb wire on my legs, but had a feast on my smooth feet and ankles. I started downloading the video camera's 30 gig hard drive onto DVDs under a pavilion. It took seven and I was up till 2 am burning them. It was worth it though, even with the mosquito bites. Now we have a fresh hard drive to record up to seven hours of video. 40 miles.