Wednesday, January 19, 2022

The Way We Were Wednesday - The Tour of Kentucky


 The last year I was in Kentucky I did two grand tours.  The Bar Association did a road show - a series of two day continuing education programs at various locations across the state.  The promise was that no member would have to drive more than 100 miles to attend the program.  I wrote a section of the program, and normally I would recruit volunteers around the state to present at a location near them.  In 2008, I booked myself for the far flung corners of the state, I think I did 6 of the 8 locations, skipping the one in my own backyard, and in Louisville.  Later that fall the state health insurance information assistance program (SHIP) did a road show, three locations, one near home, one way out in the western part of the state, and one down in south central closer to Tennessee than civilization.  I was doing a couple of hours on the agenda and I was assigned to drive one of the most experienced volunteers around the state.  

This image was taken down south.  For that location I stayed in a log cabin with a wood burning fireplace, a part of the hotel complex.  While I was at this location I had a voice mail, about a possible interview for a job in Washington DC.  I went and parked the car between two tall trees, on top of a hill to return the call, the best cell reception in the county, and made arrangements for the interview that led me to being here.  Little did I know when I started that tour, that it would be my last tour of Kentucky.   

16 comments:

  1. It's always funny how the most permeant things in our lives, sometime just happen and take very little planning or warning. Many of my long-term things in my life have happened that way.

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  2. Anonymous1/19/2022

    Aside from the Derby, no one ever mentions Kentucky. I wonder why.

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    1. The Derby and Bourbon are the two things worth mentioning, and Bourbon can be made elsewhere

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  3. I’ve never been to Kentucky and, until you two, never knew anyone who lived there. Did you enjoy your time there?

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    1. I did try very hard to like it, but ended up pretty much hating the place. There was some very pretty countryside, and Mammoth Cave is amazing, but it was small, rural, a bit backwards at times, and way too southern for this Cleveland kid.

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    2. Thanks for that! I have a feeling I’d feel that way, too.

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  4. Parts of the state are pretty, and it was an easy place to live. There are drawbacks and we both yearned for a larger city.

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  5. Bourbon and Blue Grass is all I know of Kentucky. I've never been. I think small towns can be difficult to live in, unless you have access, without too much hassle, to a more metropolitan scene.

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    1. I interviewed for a job in Louisville, that might have changed things, for the most part we went to Cincinnati when we need culture and that was 90 miles away

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  6. Is that where the Fried Chicken comes from? *smirk*

    Sassybear
    www.idleeyesandadormy.com

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  7. Many years ago I drove across Kentucky during the summer. I saw a lot of green rolling hills and horse farms.

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    1. From east to west it is a long drive. Some pretty mountains

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  8. Well, you went out with a bang!

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  9. lovely story, this.

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