Well, I didn’t *plan* to stay at this park for 10 nights, but that’s how things worked out. If you’d told me last year that I’d be spending almost three weeks in Kentucky, I would have probably laughed out loud. But here I am… I’ve already shredded my 2024 Bingo card as far as destinations…
Author: Annie
Eclipse 2024
I’ve seen two partial solar eclipses in my life, and they were fun. But they were NOTHING compared to experiencing the totality of a full-on solar eclipse. It was worth all the travel woes, weather, and hassles to get to Henderson, Kentucky (near Evansville, Indiana) to watch the show.
Backroads of Western Kentucky
There’s nothing I like better than tooling around the back roads of a place, the better to get to know it and see more than interstate highways and city centers. And since western Kentucky is sort of ancestral land for me, I wanted to feel it out, see what my ancestors might have seen more…
Hopkinsville, KY
A long time ago, around the turn of the last century, James Millard Gilliland moved his family from Hopkinsville to eastern Arizona, and for the last few years, I’ve been trying to make it back here, just to see the place. Weather defeated me twice before, but not this year. I finally made it to…
Rochester Dam, KY
Back in the days when I could play a guitar, I loved learning John Prine songs. Easy to play, for the most part, with basic chords I could handle, but it was the lyrics that always got to me. From the stark loneliness of Hello In There to the two haunting verses of Souvenirs to…