Daily Archives: July 12, 2013

July 12, 2013 Richmond, KY

After traveling through the beautiful hills of Tennessee and Kentucky, we arrived at Boonesborough State Park.  We found a lovely site with grass and trees, but the campground was very crowded as it was one of 4 weekends of the year where campers could come and sell their various yard sale treasure.  Riding our bikes around the campground was a true test of nerves as we dodged cars, RVs, campers, and many children playing and riding bikes in the street.  Our biggest complaint was a water treatment plant in the park which ran 24 hours a day and made it impossible to sleep with our windows open at night, despite the cool temperatures.

We toured Fort Boonesborough where we imagined walking in Daniel Boone’s footsteps and learned about frontier life.  They had reenactments and people dressed in period clothing.  It reminded me somewhat of Jamestown and Williamsburg, but on a much smaller scale.

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Next on our list was Natural Bridge where we rode a sky lift to the top.  The views were amazing and we walked a few trails at the top, one of which took us to the bottom of the bridge. Kentucky’s Natural Bridge doesn’t really hold a candle to the one in my home state of Virginia, but on the positive side the Kentucky bridge is much less commercialized, and the view can’t be beat!

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Sky lift to the top. An amazing view!!

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We hiked down to the bottom of the bridge. We had to shimmy our way through very narrow passageways between rocks to get there.

 

We also drove to Lexington, the horse capital of the world and a beautiful area of the state.  We spent time doing some geocaching.

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It was suggested that we go to a restaurant near the campground that made great Hot Brown sandwiches and fried banana peppers.  Let’s just say, everyone should experience them once, but once is enough.