Frankfort, Kentucky

We had debated for most of the drive down to Asheville on what we would do on Saturday.  We knew that we would prefer to stay in Bloomington Saturday night, so our choices were to stay in Asheville and drive straight back, stop in Tennessee or to visit Kentucky.  Meg and I voted for Dollywood, but Doug and Cal quickly shot that idea down.  It was too much like a country fair for them.  Nowhere else in Tennessee sounded appealing, so Doug started researching Frankfort as it was about halfway back.  We were glad that he did as our stop in Kentucky’s capitol was a lot of fun.

We decided to leave at 8:30 a.m. to get an early start to the day.  Although it was hard getting up and around after such a busy day yesterday, we were thankful that we did as I-75 was closed for a portion of our trip.  We found an alternate route that only took ten minutes longer and gave us all insight into the life of a rural Kentuckian.  Our first stop of the day was the grave of Daniel Boone.  We did some reading on our trip up the state and found out that this was one of two Boone graves as there was fighting between the states of Missouri and Kentucky as to where he was to be buried and controversy as to who was really buried in the grave in Kentucky.  Since we had already visited the one in the Show Me State, we had to add this stop to our Frankfort agenda.  Thus, no matter which grave housed the body of the most well known pioneer of the Blue Grass State we had definitely paid our respects.

After our trek through the cemetery we had lunch along the Kentucky River at Bourbon on Main.  We enjoyed their highly rated cocktails while watching Cal attempt the Quit Your Bitchin' burger.  Although it brought tears to his eyes, he was able to finish it all and made Cam's spicy burger seem like nothing.  Next, we toured the Rebecca Ruth candy shop next.  It was definitely a local favorite with a century of history tied to the town.  The shop could have used a deep cleaning, but we didn't mind as the free Bourbon Balls were excellent.  We stopped at the Buffalo Trace Distillery next.  It was absolutely packed.  We bought some bourbon and walked through the grounds.  It would be worth a tour on another day.  Our last visit in Frankfort was Cove Springs Park.  It had also gotten five star reviews on Trip Advisor and we could see why as the views were spectacular on our hike.  After pictures by the waterfall we piled back in the Pilot with Bloomington as our next destination.  We had all enjoyed our fall break road trip, but everyone was ready to get back and rest.  Doug and I were extremely thankful that Cal, Meg, Cam and Hannah-Marie could join us.