On This Lonely Kentucky Backroad

We left Chicago on Monday morning, refreshed from a weekend stay in a hotel and ready to enjoy the company of our friends Heather and Bryan and enjoy some homecooked Ohio meals. It took us about about five hours to get from Chicago to HP & Beez because they live just about a half hour north of Cincinnati. We drove from the southernmost part of Illinois and made a big diagonal, cutting Indiana right in half to get to the southern part of the Buckeye State.
HP and Beez were awesome and grilled us some filets wrapped in bacon (yummm), corn on the cob, and potatoes that were baked with onions and rosemary seasoned olive oil. I am pretty sure we will not see another homecooked meal like that again for a few weeks more. The other cool thing was we got to just chill out in some air conditioning with our pals and watch The Red Sox (Bobby and Beez) and the Bachelorette (Shanny and HP). ((I have to admit, I was having a little anxiety about missing this episode in Tahiti! ))
Tuesday morning brought Cracker Barrel breakfast and a little restocking at Kroger which is the midwest grocery store. Then, we hit the road. Our aim is for Tennessee, and we are hoping to be there by Wednesday afternoon. We drove all day through Kentucky which is absolutely beautiful. I never realized how lush and green Kentucky would be, I think I always assumed it was more farm land than anything else.
We drove past the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln and a place called Dinosaur Land which we really wanted to go to but just didn't have the time. Another thing about the midwest that is really cool is the flea markets. Unfortunately, they are only open on the weekends, so we haven't been able to go to any this time around, but they are enormous. They take a lot about tthe size of a football field and cover it with barn sides and enormous tin roofs and they put gigantic billboards all down the high way that say things like "Worlds Biggest Flea" and "Most Awesome Flea Market".
Now, we are camping in Bowling Green. Bowling Green is the kind of place you hear of your whole life but never think you will see. A great thing about the KOAs (Campgrounds of America) is that they have swimming pools that are about 70 degrees and stay open til nine or ten at night. Tonight, as we were about to hop on our bikes to ride over to the pool, a guy pulled up in a vehicle that looked like 6 wheel amphibious banana splits mobile. Okay, that's what Bobby called it, but be more specific, it was like a four wheeler (but it had six wheels) and it had big metal roll bars going over it and instead of a steering wheel it had these two levers. The levers could make it go forward, backward, or spin in place. So, this guy offers us a ride and then proceeds to zoom all over the campgound, off roading, knocking trash barrels over, flying up to the water's edge and then spinning suddenly in place and zooming off in another direction. Turns out, he's the guy who runs this KOA and his name is Rico, so no need to worry about the toppled over trash cans. I thought I was going to die, or at the very least wet my pants, so everyone got a good laugh out of me, but we are both here to blog about it.
Goodnight East Coast :) Its only ten o'clock here, but eleven o'clock where you all are.
PS--Most of my blog titles are lyrics from songs about the places we are...if you know the song, post it in a comment!! Some of them are obscure!!