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The church at kirkville is typical of the kind of churches all over this part of Kentucky. There were less on todays ride than in the previous few days...sometimes less is more as this one was beautiful I thought.

Earlier in the day I had been 'blessed' by a guy who owned a gas station store...he said I should feel important as he had actually got put of his chair because I was English...he then told me all about how we had lost what he called the revolutionary war...and then with a smile on his face and a chew of his tobacco he asked the lord to protect me on my ride.
..which I thought was most slendid of the old codger!

A tobaccaco barn on todays ride on Kentucky.

Harrington lake kentucky

Kentucky kows

Kentucky kows

My first view of the Appalachian mountains to come

Abe's place

Todays ride was wonderful! I rode 98 miles to Berea Kentucky the gateway to the Appalachian mountains. I really enjoyed it..the countryside is rolling hills..steep in places and I had to keep telling myself this was not an English summers day in Surrey or Sussex!
Blue sky warm but lots of shade , green grass and trees everywhere...one of the prettiest rides of the trip yet!
Only one dog charge and he gave up when he realized he'd have to rum uphill to get me lol!
I rode to Abraham Lincolns homestead house...the guy clearly came from a poor upbringing.
I met a rider from Kansas city going east..Scott. we rode together for a few minutes ..had a few navigation cock ups because the map was clearly wrong...so I put my.faith in god technology for the test of the ride and set off...when I looked back Scott was nowhere to be seen...oops.
I headed on to Berea and found water at a church in kirkville. The hills here have a habit of making me feel seasick as they are like riding a rollercoaster all day!
Eventually I got to Berea and my stomache took me directly to subway and ordered the biggest sandwich with all the trimmings and four refills of Gatorade! Refills here are free for those Brits reading this.
I was going to camp at the rv park but it was out on the freeway and I valued my life to much..besides I just had a great ride and finished map section 10 of the 12 on the transam so I got a motel with a swimming pool as a treat!

I've ridden through another time zone change...think I'm on eastern standard time now...it actually feels a bit different as I'm more tired in the mornings and the sunsets earlier. Five hours behind the UK now.