This morning we got going promptly in order to go to 9:30 Mass, which felt like 8:30 to us. The church was cute and was on top of a hill, and after communion the priest gave us all the St. Blaise blessing. Here is a photo of the inside of the church, Holy Trinity.
It was actually in Edinburgh, Indiana (Home of the Lancers) - we didn't even make it to Columbus last night. There were donuts and coffee afterwards, but Travalon said let's avoid the donuts... and then we went to Starbucks for fancier coffee, and he got a cheese danish! Then we drove to Seymour to see John Mellencamp's boyhood home. Here is a photo.
For some reason Travalon's GPS kept repeating the street names that were numbers, so it would tell us to "Turn on Sixth Sixth Street" and "Go right on Third Third Street." Here is a cool building on Chestnut Street (Chestnut Chestnut Street?). John Mellencamp has a bootleg album named after this street.
In the bathroom in a gas station in Seymour, I found this message someone had tried to erase. Isn't it the truth? Isn't society always trying to erase this message from us?
Then we went to Louisville and walked along the waterfront. Here are some photos.
We had lunch at a pizza place in Louisville, then we went to Frankfort, which I had always thought was called Frankfurt, since that's how I hear people pronounce it. Mind blown! We took a walk around the Capitol building, but it was closed on Sundays.
This is the Governor's Mansion. Surprisingly, their current governor is a Democrat.
This is the view from the front of the Capitol.
We went to Lexington and stopped at the Chocolate Holler, which is like a coffee shop (and they do have coffee), but their big thing is chocolate drinks, either hot or iced. They did have sipping chocolate too, like the Chocolaterian used to have, but I was curious about an iced lavender chocolate drink. It was so good! Outside of the Chocolate Holler we saw this black Corvette with silver designs on it.
They were a bunch of what appeared to be Instagram handles! How long would it take to have done this? And why??
At a rest stop we saw this semi cab with Daffy Duck on it.
Our next stop was Berea College, which from the little I've heard of it has a fascinating history as a place dedicated to teaching both black and white students from Appalachia. I'll have to study more about it at some point. It had some beautiful buildings on its campus and a vista of the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
This piece of art was in the Music building.
So was this historic photo of the Berea Band, which as you can see was integrated.
And my cell phone's version of the same building.
Boone's Tavern across the street might be named after Daniel Boone.
We drove through some very scary mountains in Tennessee, where the roads are much rougher than in Kentucky. I could see the lights of houses like stars twinkling far below us, a disorienting effect but maybe not quite as scary as if we'd driven through in the daytime and I'd seen how far up we were. Just outside of Knoxville we saw a sign that said "Rough Pavement Ahead." My dude, the pavement has been rough since we entered this state! Why are you just mentioning it now?
We are staying at the Graduate Hotel in Knoxville, where the restaurant stopped serving food at nine even though the website said ten, so when I pointed out the discrepancy, they said they could give us free breakfast. We got in after nine, so we ran across the street to a Mideastern restaurant that was still open, but they wouldn't let us eat there because they were closing at ten, so we had to get our food to go and eat in the hotel lobby. It is a very cool hotel lobby. I love how the backs of the chairs are a T for Tennessee and orange for their color.
This was a cool sign in the lobby.
Our hotel room has a very old-school phone in it, but I forgot to take a photo. I'll do that and post it tomorrow. Bonus photos: Travalon's photos of the sunset over Clinton Lake last night.
The only ones on the beach were some Canada geese.
Tomorrow we are hoping to see Gatlinburg and Asheville.
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