7.06.2006
Day 14 - 40.25 Miles
Hodgenville, KY
We started our day out of Springfield to find our road was closed because of bridge construction. While cars couldn't pass, we were able to walk our bikes through the surrounding fields to get by and then had a great couple miles of car-free riding. Later in the day, we saw a funeral procession of someone who must have been a trucker. We were climbing a small country road and saw eight fronts of 18-wheelers climbing slowly over a hill with all their lights on. The last one had a flat-bed with a coffin strapped to it. The body was followed by another 40 or so cars. Quite a sight. We also stopped to check out Lincoln's boyhood home - a recreated log cabin. wow. (it was on route). Just before finding our campsite behind a local high school, we stopped at a fudge shop to pick up some great sugary treats (www.sweetshoppefudge.com) and learned about the region - everything from farming to how the Amish settled the area. We'd love to fully and accurately describe the confederate hankerchief using, wife in jail having, midget girl wrestling fan of a groundskeeper at the high school, but his intricacies defy description.
We started our day out of Springfield to find our road was closed because of bridge construction. While cars couldn't pass, we were able to walk our bikes through the surrounding fields to get by and then had a great couple miles of car-free riding. Later in the day, we saw a funeral procession of someone who must have been a trucker. We were climbing a small country road and saw eight fronts of 18-wheelers climbing slowly over a hill with all their lights on. The last one had a flat-bed with a coffin strapped to it. The body was followed by another 40 or so cars. Quite a sight. We also stopped to check out Lincoln's boyhood home - a recreated log cabin. wow. (it was on route). Just before finding our campsite behind a local high school, we stopped at a fudge shop to pick up some great sugary treats (www.sweetshoppefudge.com) and learned about the region - everything from farming to how the Amish settled the area. We'd love to fully and accurately describe the confederate hankerchief using, wife in jail having, midget girl wrestling fan of a groundskeeper at the high school, but his intricacies defy description.
