Road Trip Diary: Kentucky Bourbon Trail

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Nick

Wow lots of pictures and info from your trip!

Thanks for posting



David

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hey nick this is news letter material.

what a great pic in front of the arch! My family is from Columbia MS and that brings me back.

last time I was there I just bought my TT Z06 in Denver CO and did the
ir@n @$$ ride across the country. stopped at the budweiser plant and the blue angels were flying over the arch

that inn looks great and the Ms. looks very pleased.

it's nice to include our significant others in the "obsession" as my wife calls it.

happy wife = happy life

great pics, and thanks for sharing the experience. like to visit that Inn someday on one of the BG trips

time for the "booze cruise" as we call it hitting the KY bourbon and Jack Daniels plants

I'm now a huge fan of Makers Mark which is the KY derby booze

good stuff. I don't really drink much at all anymore but I do need to take it up again !!

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Sorry for the lag time in posting, but we have been having a blast! To pick up where we left off...

Day 2 saw us in Louisville, at the Inn at Woodhaven. After an amazing breakfast featuring french toast with caramel bourbon sauce, we were off to explore! We checked out Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby, the Big Four foot bridge over the Ohio River, and the Louisville Slugger museum.

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The Inn at Woodhaven, a great place to stay in Louisville!

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Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby. Barbaro and ZR-1, both Kentucky thoroughbreds.

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Louisville has a nice riverfront area. Here is the Big Four footbridge from Louisville, to Indiana, across the Ohio river.

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No trip to Louisville would be complete without a stop at the origin of so many MLB homers, Louisville Slugger.

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By the way, I need to credit my wonderful wife, Anna on all of these pictures. These are the highlights from hundreds of shots she has been taking along the way. She has a very artistic eye, and a talent with the camera that I will never match.

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So much more to see and do in Louisville, but we had to be on our way to catch the Bourbon Trail at the Woodford Reserve distillery, near Versailles, KY. Our trip took us through the rain along I-64, and then onto some amazing country roads, through the hills, over limestone streams that are the source for so much amazing bourbon, and along the stacked stone walls that seem ubiquitous in the Kentucky countryside. Distilling at the rural Woodford County site dates back to the late 1700's, and the buildings that house the current distillery operations were erected in the early 1800's, making this site well worthy of its designation as a National Historic Landmark.

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The beautiful and historic Woodford reserve distillery. Their standard bourbon is quite smooth and tasty, but I opted for a bottle of their "double oaked" bourbon, which is aged in two stages in two separate rounds of new charred oak barrels.