This was the road surface when we started out today. Luckily, we had talked to members of the paving crew last night at the motel and knew we only had 3 miles of this.
The garden at the Homeplace. The female interpreters at the Homeplace planted and tend the garden. As the vegetables come in, they give cooking demonstrations for the visitors. All of the vegetables grown were heirloom vegetables from the 1850's
Another shed. We thought that there were a lot of buildings and that one farm would not have as many. One of the staff said that actually there would be many more - for instance, there would be multiple corn cribs and tobacco sheds to store the crops
Across from the Homeplace was a large pasture that contained buffalo (bison). At the time Europeans first settled the area there were large populations of bison and elk, but they were soon hunted to extinction. They have since been re-introduced.
Not much traffic on the main road in LBL. If you like hills, its cycling heaven. For me, some of the 10% grades were far from heaven. The day was like a yo-yo for me - 5-6 MPH uphill and then 35-36 MPH downhill
John made me do a 3 mile detour to see this campground and Kentucky Lake. The main road in LBL is on what is known as the Tennessee Ridge and the 3 miles to the lake was mostly downhill. All the way out I kept thinking of the climb to get back to the main road and thought "I'm going to kill him, I'm going to kill him!" Acutually the climb on the way back was not that bad, so he gets to live and ride with me again tomorrow.
Rachael AndersonI sympathize with you and have had the same thoughts with rides Scott has mapped out. I’m glad it wasn’t as hard as expected! Reply to this comment 4 years ago
Empty coal cars. In the distance, there is a pier where coal is loaded onto barges for trips down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. The barges deliver the coal to powerplants along the rivers or to New Orleans for export.
