HEADING EAST THROUGH KENTUCKY (Cheri)

We are heading towards North Carolina again, but won't be leaving Kentucky until tomorrow.

This was inside an older rest stop east of Lexington.  The rest stop looked like an alien spaceship from the outside, so I guess the style of the mosaic fit right in.

We passed the Bardstown Bourbon Company heading west a week ago, then east today.  I knew that my first guess regarding the type of buildings we were seeing couldn't be correct, but . . . dormitories?  There were about ten of these, a distance from the freeway.

Image Credit:  Joseph & Joseph Architects

As we came back through we saw the barrels and figured it out.  Why all the windows, I don't know.

The area to the east of Lexington is dominated by horse farms and high-end event spaces.  We wanted to take an overhead-drone picture of the white fencing snaking all over horse-breeding Calumet Farms, but lacking the drone, have to rely on a vintage postcard for a much less comprehensive shot:

(Until this week, if you had said "Calumet" to me, I would have thought only of baking powder.)

The town of Versailles, Kentucky, near Lexington, has a cool water tower:

We were seeing a lot of black barns throughout this region.  A lot of them have a mid-mod edge, kind of like the inspiration photo for the house that we are remodeling.  Here's a typical one:

Image Credit:  Brian King Images

It turns out, per the Library of Congress:  "Black barns raise the heat inside, aiding the curing of tobacco. Many got their color from creosote, which repelled termites. Soon many Kentucky barns were painted black just as a fashion statement."

We found a couple of camp sites in the Daniel Boone Forest, near the eastern edge of the State:

Image Credit:  DeLorme Atlas

The 60 runs through such neat and clean countryside.  We weren't at all surprised when we saw a sign indicating that Amish people might be driving alongside:

We didn't see any Amish travelers, but I did consider that there might be a nearby fabric store!

We passed the campground in the town of Salt Lick, but stopped nearby.  Luckily we finished parking just before the rain started.

And here is the view we will have out our back window when we wake up in the morning: