I headed home for my birthday, I wanted a nice break where I could rest and start a trip home off on a nicer foot then the last two times I'd been home. After chilling with family I headed to Chicago to try and visit a couple friends. I visited a lot of places I'd [...]
You're probably wondering why we're back in back in the USA. That's because right before Chuseok my phone found it's way back to me, courtesy of my aunt who sent it in a wooden tea box. While there wasn't a lot of things I had a chance to do over the two days during the [...]
My sister got a derby pie at one of the restaurants we went to and fell in love. So on our last day she looked up bakeries determined to head home with at least two full pies. The one she decided on was Missy's Pies, ect. Missy's Pies, ect is a bakery that also offers [...]
A short distance from the fort in Harrodsburg is a place called Dedman's. Once a drugstore built during the civil war with a soda fountain added during prohibition has now been refurbished by the Kentucky Fudge Company. While named Kentucky Fudge Company does not mean all the serve is fudge. They have a pretty big menu [...]
Our first stop on our last day in Kentucky was the Old Fort which was the first settlement in Kentucky. It is a full-scale replica of a fort built-in 1774 by James Harrod. Tickets are $7 and include entrance to the Lincoln Marriage Temple and museum on the edge of the parks entrance. Also on [...]
On our way back to Lexington from Claiborne's we stopped by Horseshoes for lunch. They have two locations, both attached to Days Inn's. There's plenty of space and the walls are covered in racing photos. I ordered their Country Fried Steak while my sister got a Kentucky specialty called a Hot Brown. What is a [...]
At 10 and 11 am Claiborne farms has a free tour. When my sister's made a reservation for the tour I didn't know anything about it. Other than we'd see some horses. Claiborne farms isn't the easiest to get to...or well, Claiborne farms is easy to get to but it's huge and the sections of [...]
Woodford Reserves is a bourbon company that's over a couple hundred years old. Starting in 1780 and surviving through the prohibition, they offer a tour for about $14 that is 70 minutes long. It's one of the distilleries on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail. On the tour you learn more about bourbon and how Woodford Reserves [...]
In Lexington there's a castle. The castle while surviving a fire and being passed around is currently an inn, where rooms go for $185-$595 per night, to being an event space of $4300 per night. Also for much cheaper you can buy tickets to a murder mystery event for about $75. (Still expensive, but it's [...]
I know my family is one of bookworms, but I didn't realize just how bad our bookworm nature was until this trip. Somehow my eldest sister managed to include at least one trip to a different bookstore per day, and at most three. As a person with limited space in my luggage this was torture. [...]
