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This blog was started to chronicle the preparations to both Serene Dream and us (Don & Gloria) for a short cruise along the Intracoastal Waterway. It is continuing as an open record of our joys and misadventures sailing and towing our Catalina 22 sailboat.

Saturday, May 18, 2013

May 18, 2013 - Back from Vacation



Our 'Plan C” vacation following the Kentucky Bourbon Trail was great. After an all-day push, we arrived at our hotel in Elizabethtown, KY, a few miles south of Louisville.

I can highly recommend the Kentucky Bourbon Trail for a low-key week’s vacation.  The actual trail takes 3 ½ days if you push yourself, which we did.  One suggestion is to take the website’s suggested itinerary and reverse it.  That’s what we did, mostly be chance.  I think they designed the tour to save some of the best-known distilleries for last.  But we found the tour at the Jim Beam distillery so complete, it helped us understand all the other tours, even if they were a bit light on one area or another.

We stopped to visit friends and relatives on the way home and spent last night with some friends in their home in Grove, OK, near the shores of Grand Lake.  They have a delightful locations, backing up to a large field of several acres.  We sat on their patio for breakfast and watched various birds visiting their feeders.  I could get used to that life!!

We arrived back in town on earlier today.  Unpacking will happen over the next day or two, and Monday I will launch the boat and take the trailer to a shop to look at the wheels and axle.


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