Monthly Archives: August 2013

This morning we are heading towards home from Lexington.  We had fueled up last night and even though the bikes were dirty from yesterday’s wet roads, we decided not to wash them before heading north.  We visited the Kentucky Horse Park, but didn’t have the time to really look at much other than the visitor center and gift shop.

We decided to take 68 north towards Maysville where we crossed the state line on the way down.  We put on our rain gear before we hit the rain.

Stuck in the rain in Kentucky

We headed over the bridge and took 52 east towards US-23.

Crossing the bridge over the Ohio River as we leave Kentucky

We stopped for lunch a couple miles after getting on 52 at a place called Lucky Lady.  The food was very good and was absolutely filled with all the locals.  We were all stuffed by the time we left.  We took US-23 north out of Portsmouth and we only got a couple of miles out of Portsmouth and got caught in a torrential downpour.  We all got pretty wet before we could even get our rain gear on. We then took 159 and thought we might get wet again, but we were able to get in front of it before heading north and beat the rain before it crossed 159.  We then took 22 east into Lancaster, from there it was a short ride up to Granville on 37.

It was an enjoyable ride and weekend, and we had a good time, each day was at least 200 miles of slow paced enjoyable rides through the rolling hills of Kentucky and southern Ohio.

We were all up by 6:30 and preparing for the day which included breakfast at the hotel and planning the day’s ride.  We also took the bikes to wash the lime off them from yesterday’s ride, which took us past a lime mine.  After we washed the bikes we thought we would try out the cyclone dryer to dry them off.  We parked a couple of bikes under the dryer and turned it on.  It only dried a little stripe on the bikes, so we hopped on them and pushed them back and forth under the dryers.  Kevin was blocking my left dryer and I was blocking Kevin’s right dryer, so we put another dollar in and rode the bikes through while the cyclone did it’s work.  It was pretty entertaining watching us struggle pushing the bikes back and forth under these dryers.  Not the brightest idea of the morning, but the motorcycles looked a lot better after we were done.

We headed out on KY 18 and caught 338 near the ohio river to the east of Florence, KY.  We then caught 42 South and then 421 and followed that in to Frankfort.  On our way, we had to stop several times as it seems people around there like to train their dogs to stray into the roads and try to cause accidents.  We ran into some very wet roads, but managed to stay out of the rain.  We then headed to the Wild Turkey Distillery and to take the tour and taste testing.  We happened to be inside when the rain finally caught us and we managed to stay dry even though the motorcycles didn’t.

Wild Turkey Distillery

After drying the bikes off we headed towards Lexington and checked into the Courtyard by Marriott.  We passed this cool looking castle that Deb was able to take a picture of as we passed it.

Kentucky Castle

After unloading the bikes we headed downtown to eat at a place recommended to us by the Courtyard staff.  The place was called DeSha’s and it was a very good dinner.  We got out of town just before they started the Midsummer Nights Run in downtown Lexington and shut the entire city down.  We got back to the hotel and hopped in the hot tub and pool and had some beverages and talked in the courtyard before showering and turning in for the night.

It was a nice ride today overall and was a good ride.  We have about 450 miles in on this trip and it’s probably one of the shortest trips we have done milage wise, but I don’t think we ever topped 55 mph today.

Tomorrow morning we are heading home and I get to see my wife and kids and catch up with them on the fun they had this weekend as well.  I look forward to seeing them and miss them.