Day Seven

We have now been here a whole week. It seems to have shot by, but already the first few days seem a long time ago. Strange really.

We got up about 8am. Ann did some Skyping and then we went for breakfast. Packed up and headed south.

Journey was fairly dull. Passed the time by taking photos of odd things. Eventually we drove through Cincinnati.

Cin City

It seemed a fairly tired place with lots of derelict buildings in some areas. It also sits right on the Ohio/Kentucky border, so we moved across into another state. The further we moved into Kentucky the odder it seemed. We saw lots of places advertising Adult Books and Peep Shows or Girls, Girls, Girls. Most looked grimy, dingy places like the one below.




Pussy Galore

The next thing we saw also linked with Pussy Galore, for Kentucky is home to Fort Knox. We drove past and took pictures from the side. You can drive along Bullion Boulevard in front of it, but you are not allowed to take photos along that road, so we saw no point in doing so.

Mr Goldfinger

$337billion worth of gold is supposedly stored in it, although some people reckon there is not one cent worth in there anymore. Who knows? You can't go in like you can at the Federal Reserve in New York. We did that in 2010 and saw more gold than Fort Knox has.

We stopped for lunch at a Subway not long after. Didn't stay long. Carried on south. Took pictures of more weird and wonderful things.

My kind of shop

Eventually we reached our destination of Bowling Green. Checked in and then watched more Harry Potter.

Popped out to IHOP for dinner. Was a fairly forgetful experience. We did get asked where we were from and the waitress said she loved our accents, but she also told us she'd been working almost non stop since Friday. It showed. Ann ordered two blueberry pancakes with banana and scrambled eggs with no bacon. She got two blueberry pancakes, bacon, hash browns and scrambled egg. Ate quickly and left.

Now back watching Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part two. Getting ready to leave early tomorrow as we have stuff to do before we head even further south. The accents are already very thick here, but they will get a whole lot thicker tomorrow.

Bears seen - 0

Moose watch - low

States visited - 5