Miles: 66.6 Time: 5 hours 26 min. Ave: 12.2mph
We woke up this morning to NO rain! Yeah! It isn't a lot of fun taking the tents down in the rain. However the sky is overcast and by the time we start riding it is starting to spit at us and of course that is followed by real rain. We ride for the first 15 or so miles in a light rain and wonder if this will be with us all day. We seem very lucky however as it starts to clean and by our stop, 30+ miles down the road it is getting quite sunny. We lunch at the Huddle House in Mayfield, KY and it is actually quite good. The variety of people coming in the front door holds our interest. There is an older couple quite nicely dressed and obviously straight from church sitting just steps away from and old man who looked like he had slept under a tree. One young fellow who was quite large in body size (a lot of people are quite large) was chowing down on biscuits & gravy, hash browns and bacon. Lots of biscuits and white gravy in this part of the country.
Our riding after lunch is especially pretty (of course the sun helps!). We were on back roads going over and around and up and down through lovely rural country side. We are using the Map My Ride service that the day before proved less than reliable. Today we are finding the same problem. Turns left when you know you should be going right. Martha and I use our instinct and forged ahead with some trepidation. Finally we have a farmer turning into his barn and stop to ask him directions. He was just the nicest man. He asked if we were lost......we said "no, we just don't know where we are!" We all had fun laughing before he told us how to go, which I have to add is the way we were going. He then said he was just there to check on his barn which is full of drying tobacco. Never having seen drying tobacco, we asked if we could have a look. He was pleased to show us and have his picture taken. He has two barns, the other is closed up and he is smoking the tobacco which will be used for chewing tobacco. NO, Kit didn't give him a lecture on the health issues surrounding tobacco use!
As we continue on our route we see more barns, old and new, full of tobacco drying.
We also smell the roasting of the tobacco being smoked in the closed barns, almost the smell of meat being smoked in the outside smokers. There are a lot of those in this area also. We are wanting to actually see the tobacco growing when we come around a corner and there is a small field of it. To look and feel and smell the leaves you can't imagine why anyone would dry, roll and smoke the stuff!
We also smell the roasting of the tobacco being smoked in the closed barns, almost the smell of meat being smoked in the outside smokers. There are a lot of those in this area also. We are wanting to actually see the tobacco growing when we come around a corner and there is a small field of it. To look and feel and smell the leaves you can't imagine why anyone would dry, roll and smoke the stuff!
We eventually get to the main road. This only means that there is traffic, not that there is a shoulder. None of the roads seem to have shoulders. We finally arrive in Aurora and find our way to Kenlake State Park. Bill has gotten us a two bedroom "cabin" in amongst the trees and with the most beautiful view of the lake. It is a luxurious state park as it has a "lodge" with swimming pool, golf course, marina, tennis, etc. Nothing like this in New Mexico that is for sure. We eat dinner and watch The Amazing Race before bed.
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