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 [...]
While in Frankfort we headed to the Buffalo Trace Distillery which offers free tours and thus isn't on the bourbon trail but is in the area. They offer free hour-long tours for all ages on Monday-Saturday from 9-4pm and Sundays 12-3pm. They leave on the hour so try to arrive early. We didn't arrive in [...]
After lunch we headed into Frankfort for a little bit of shopping. While mom checked out antiques one of my sisters and I popped into the bookstore. A small, crammed with books style indie shop with $1 literary buttons at the cash register and a cute kids corner with a fish tank. They're speciality is [...]
After a bit of looking around to see what was around that we could eat at we headed to Rick's White Light Diner, featured in Diner's Drive-Ins and Dives. Mostly we picked it for the brisket and pulled pork sandwiches which popped up on the menu. Which is a bit surprising since most of my [...]
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 [...]
On our second day in Kentucky we got up early and headed straight to the Keeneland track kitchen for some breakfast. The Track Kitchen offers a cafeteria style set up, which wasn't too uncomfortable despite multiple reviews saying it was nothing special. They offer a wide variety of American breakfast foods, though their special on [...]
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. [...]
