Day 11 – Bruce’s Day Off

Fair warning – this post comes with lots of pictures of the Potter kids.

Today was an off day for me. Not by planning or choice, mind you. I’ve been pushing pretty hard the last week and a half to hit all the marks on the schedule. Yesterday was hilly and hot and I think I pushed it too far. I felt pretty lousy last night and it continued on till the morning. I was super tired, my heart rate was way off, and I felt generally off. Given that there’s nearly 3k miles left to go in this adventure, I decided discretion was the better part of valor and let JP ride solo today.

Honestly, it wasn’t a bad rest day to take. My mom and her side of the family are from this area, so we did a little sight seeing on the way to Bardstown, our next stop. Mom, expect a package in the mail 🙂

This is MUCH flatter country than what we just rode through so you can actually see things on the horizon. There are watertowers everywhere.

The Lincoln Heritage Trail also cuts through this part of the state. The Trail is a collection of Lincoln-related historic sites including the cabin his parents were married in (located in Harrodsburg KY).

It should be noted that the cabin is preserved by placing it inside another building. “Buildception” as Terran put it.  It’s hard to see in the photo below, but there’s a cabin inside that doorway behind us.

There was also a VERY large orange tree on the grounds. And a cannon. A full featured stop.

Terran doesn’t like having his picture taken. This was the best out of about 30 that Heidi took 😉

Daxton spent all his time trying to aim the cannon and saying “boom”. I think he understood what it was. Which is scary.

Also on the site was a recreation of Fort Harrod. Inside the fort they had people dressed in period outfits doing period things like making soap, making yarn, and blacksmithing. Bobby even got to help the blacksmith and keep his creation.

Also, they had the loudest sheep in the world inside the fort. There wasn’t a plaque or anything, but it was loud enough I’m sure the critter would have broken any pre-existing records.

It should be noted that Kentucky State Parks are awesome. Between the Buckhorn Lake Resort and the Fort Harrod park, it seems that other states could learn a lot from the Kentucky parks service.

Finally, some frivolity. Terran tries to photobomb everyone. So I got him back.

And Dax got sick of all the pictures.

 That’s it. Hopefully I’m back to normal tomorrow. I’m going to get to sleep early and try to hit the road as fresh as possible. It’s a short day with only one real climb so I think it should go well. We’ll see.