HORSES!

We stayed in Ohio two nights. The trees were actually starting to turn fall colors… in August! There were several places where this was evident.

Then we went to Kentucky. We found and stayed in the Kentucky Horse Park RV Park in Lexington, KY, which is the center of the universe in the US for horse breeding and racing. It was right beside the facility that Kentucky built in the late 70’s to show off and promote everything “horse”. It has the statue and grave of Man-O-War. We had actually visited this statue in the early 70’s when it was just in a small park. It is now surrounded by about 1,000 acres of a working horse farm/ranch/museums/tourist stuff. There are lots of things to see, and I think we saw it all. There are facilities for events and competitions that are quite extensive. There was a hunter/jumper competition going on, but we were too pooped to go see it.

The pictures below show a lot of horses. All the horses seemed to love the attention of the spectators. One picture shows a 2,000 pound draft horse interacting with an 80 pound small boy. Most of the pictures are of either different breeds of horses, or of thoroughbreds that are past champions. The pictures of horses being posed in an indoor ring are the past champions. I won’t even try to identify them all. The pictures shown in an outdoor ring are mostly breed varieties, with riders in costume of the countries that they came from originally. In one group, the black horse with the rider dressed in Spanish clothes is an Andalusian. There is a man riding a black that is a Friesian.

We are currently located in a small park about 50 miles south of Lexington, Kentucky, waiting for the rain of Faye to go away. We plan to drive south and spend some time in the Pigeon Forge, Tennessee area. When we called for reservations for this weekend, one lady kindly laughed. We had forgotten that this was Labor Day weekend! We will go there after the holiday and see some shows, etc. Yes, I know…. We are going directly back into even LARGER hills! ….mountains even! I expect we will be on the Natchez Trace in about 10 days, and then to home. We have gone about 5,000 miles so far, and expect it will be close to 7,000 by the time we get home. We are starting to look forward to coming home, but not to the heat. We are currently in temps in the mid 80’s, but part of that is lower than normal here we are told.

Dutch and Sandy