Day 6 Kentucky, the Blue Grass State

Day 6 – We started the morning in Owensboro, Kentucky heading to Elizabethtown, Kentucky. We headed South toward Beaver Dam and then East toward Elizabthtown. We were again out in the country, and marveled at the mowed lawns that were more than an acre of grass. The farm houses sat on a hillside and the lawns rolled out in front of them.

Aside from the beautiful scenery, the smells as we drove through Kentucky were both sweet and interesting. While rallying around the countryside we could smell a sweet honeysuckle. We did not see any honeysuckle, but the smells were intense. We also were constantly driving by people mowing their lawns. We would have the smell of fresh cut grass waft through our window.

As we drove through towns we could smell the mash that is used to distill bourbon. We drove by a few different distilleries, but the one that stands out is Bullet. There were several large warehouses, and we could see the barrels in some of the windows.

We stopped for gas in the morning and while at the gas station we saw some Amish children. They were dressed in traditional Amish clothing, the boys in long dark pants with button down shirts and suspenders, and the girls in long sleeve dresses with their hair in a bun and white bonnets on their head.

After a few hours of rallying while driving through a small town, we came upon an Amish carriage. We slowed to pass them and then continued down the road.

Our morning was somewhat shortened because we changed from central time into Eastern time. We stayed out in the farmland until lunchtime. We headed into Elizabeth town’s sports park for lunch. They have a beautiful facility with many sporting fields. We grabbed lunch and scurried back out onto the course.

A little about the rally:

The cars below are all Kentucky Blue, and show the spectrum of cars that are in the rally.

The cars are all given a factor like a golf handicap. The older the car, the higher the factor. Jane is a “new” car from 1966. She does not have much of a factor which requires us to run cleaner. We have good days and bad days, but have not been looking at our standings in the rally. There are 5 divisions in the rally: X-Cup (high school & college age teams) Sportsman Rookie, Sportsman, Expert, and Grand Champion. Each division is allowed a specific number of legs they can throw out, and the last two days no legs can be thrown out. This Saturday and Sunday can make big changes in the standings.

We ended the evening in Lexington, Kentucky. We finished at a resort about ten minutes away from downtown Lexington. We worked on a fuse that may have been shorted out by some water leaking from rain earlier in the week. Who knew that a chewing gum wrapper could fix a fuse. Our friend Roger is an engineering genius, and he was actually under the dash working on the fuses with Brad. They repaired the fuse, and we headed downtown.