Birthplace of Lincon

I've noticed that most barns in this area are all black like this.
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Friday the 6^th- It has been a beautiful day. In the morning it was even a little cool. I’ve definitely left the mountains and am in farm land now. The houses have gotten decidedly nicer as well. I stopped this evening in Harrodsburg. Its claim to fame is being the first English settlement west of the Alleghenies. The town is old and quaint. Many of the houses around town are big old mansions built in and mostly unchanged since the late 1700s. And they had Jarritos on sale at the IGA.

Another big Harrodsburg house
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7/7/07 Another beautiful morning but the temperature rose quickly. Killed an hour in Springfield talking to the ladies at the library and checking my email. I stopped again in Loretto, home of the Makers Mark distillery, which I did not visit. I went straight into the grocery store, still panting and bought some chocolate milk and a bucket of cut watermelon and cantaloupe. I ate it on the bench outside- ravenous for both the sugars and the fluids. I chatted with several locals who were interested in my trip and anxious for me. Taking the advice of one of the ladies, I took the road through New Haven, where I had an ice cream and stopped for a while at the circus which was the Kentucky Railway Museum. It was mostly families with young kids who were crazy for Thomas the Tank Engine. They had a full functional Thomas that you could take a 20 minute ride on. There was a model train exhibit and lots of food and Thomas t-shirts and balloons. I just sat at a picnic table in the shade, read a bit, ate 2 pb&js and watched the kids waiting to climb, one family at a time, into a large black engine and ring the bell. Hodgenville is the birthplace of Lincoln and I passed the locations of his school and the place he was raised.