Vacation - Day 2

Kirby, Heather, Jim and Mollie

We were up early and eager to begin the second day of our trip from Charleston, SC to Bardstown, KY.  Ray and Lucy were in their RV and took a different route than we did.  First stop was breakfast at a quaint little place just down the road from our motel in Maggie Valley, NC.

The restaurant was cute, cute and had great food and a cheerful waitress.  Here is Heather pretending she could play the piano.

We opted for the scenic route so took the Blue Ridge Parkway over to the highway that ran through Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, TN.  The Blue Ridge Parkway was better than we ever imagined!  Gorgeous!  Lots of tunnels and we even got Kirby to blow the horn. 

This is the view from one of the many pull-out.

Do you remember the picture of us last fall at the Appalachian Trail in NC?  I guess this is as close as we will ever get to it.  Click here to go to that post.

This is the trail heading off.  It was so inviting!  Enlarge the picture to really enjoy it. 

After hours and hours of driving through traffic in the tourist towns we finally arrived at our little house.  We stayed in Bardstown as it was quite central to all the distilleries that we were going to tour.  It was about a 9-10 day and to kill time we played games in the car just like kids and it really was fun.  We played some word games, 20 Questions and Heather had Mad Libs on her phone so we played that too.  Mad Libs made us laugh the most! 

Jim and Heather

We met up with Ray and Lucy and all went off to The Old Stable Restaurant and Tavern.  Everyone loved their food, the service was delightful and we got to tour the whole facility....large rooms full of interesting artifacts and gifts.

Lucy, Ray and Mollie

Heather and Kirby

This is the Kentucky Hot Brown that intrigued all of us!  There was a piece of bread on the bottom, then a slice of ham and a slice of turkey topped with tomatoes and a cheese sauce and then bacon.  Decadent!  Most of the others that we saw on menus the rest of the week had no ham and used a white cheese.

Kirby at the Old Stable

The center of Bardstown