Today's Friday, and we travelled from Morgantown, West Virginia to Louisville Kentucky. We stopped on the way at Kentucky Horse Park, but got there too late for some of the live attractions so settled for a short documentary on horses, and then a visit to the museum. The museum was excellent: history of the horse starting with evolution from a small shy quadruped, and then horses and humans from about 4000 BC in Egypt, Asia, America and Europe. I wish we'd had more time to spend there.
Our hotel in Louisville is downtown, rather than out of town, so we were able to walk just a few blocks to find a restaurant for dinner after our usual happy hour. We five Aussies decided to take a 15 minute horse and carriage ride on the way home, which was fun. Our driver (a very pretty girl who lost her job as a paralegal because of the recession) said our horse was the first carriage horse in Louisville doing these carriage rides, and he's now 34 years old, but missed it so much when they tried to retire him that he still works a couple of nights a week.
I noticed from the bus as we drove through the Appalachians that a lot of the deciduous trees have now lost their leaves completely. The pattern of their branches against the setting sun reminded me of a painting I'd seen: haunting, but alien to an Australian landscape.
Tomorrow I see the rest of the tour off to Nashville and continue on my own to Los Angeles via St Louis.
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Hi Deborah Dearest,
ReplyDeleteFinally had a chance to catch up with your blogs whilst I am visiting country South Australia. You will be able to talk American history with Kim Beasley & Bob Carr when you return. Hope you are able to get to LA without too many hassles.
Love, Pete.