Riding today in Kentucky was very much like riding through an English summer in the countryside in places...with the exception of the limitless churches of all kinds of denominations...pitbull terriers trained to attack cyclists on sight and tobacco and soya bean crops . Sunny and warm but not hot and the headwind was steady and just enough to drag on the thighs. This state is green...very green...people are friendly and expert lawn mower drivers lol!
The dogs are a pest...some owners cage them but it only takes one pitbull to mess up my trip....bear spray and a firm kick on the head with a size 12 seem to keep the owners at bay anyway...lol!

I stopped at Braham Lincolns birth house....its housed in a big shrine of some kind...its a log cabin held together with mud...I couldn't find his hat anywhere.

I was tempted to go to mammoth caves..but it was an 80 miles detour from the route and I'd just worry about Shinto while I was in the caves...besides I've seen caves before.

I've been climbing steadily all day..I suppose this the approach to the mountains that are ahead ad I get nearer to west Virginia.

Tonight I am in bardstown Kentucky...ill camp on the my old Kentucky home state park...eat at subway and get some fresh food inside me .

I was told there is a big meth problem here...guns and.dogs seem to be a bigger problem. As an Englishman the culture of churches guns dogs alcohol and crystal meth just seems weird...especially when its such a beautiful part of the state.

Anyway I'm just riding through.