We had a reservation at the KOA in Shepherdsville KY. What a difference. First, the GPS took us the wrong way and we had to keep going until we found a place to turn around. That was no fun!! When we arrived, they parked us in such a way that our slides would not clear. I told Ted to just take the car off and I will direct him myself. I moved him over and all was ok. It was the most we have ever paid for a site and in our estimation certainly not worth it.
Once that was all settled, we took off for the Zappo outlet. They have such a great selection of quality shoes. Ted found a new pair of white gym shoes and I got black dress shoes and black dress boots. It was my vote of confidence that by winter we all will be back in our uniform of black slacks and colorful tops!
Saturday we visited Locust Grove, the antebellum home of the sister of William Rogers Clark, of the Lewis and Clark expedition team. It was self guided to keep people apart. We were the only ones there! Then we finally went to church in Mount Washington, KY. It is only the third time since early March that we have attended in person. We wore masks and were socially distanced from all others. Afterwards we went to the Cattlemen’s Club for dinner and sat outside on the patio.
Sunday was a mass exodus of all the poor souls who had somewhere to be on Monday morning. That is the definition of happiness for a retired RVer - watching people leave on Sunday! We just took it easy with a walk to the pool in the evening.
Monday went so smoothly! We pulled out easily despite our parking guide’s insistence if we didn’t stay where he parked us we couldn’t make the turn. Ted pulled out and went around, stopped behind our site, we hooked up the car and took off. It was just a few hours to Franklin and we pulled into the park, were directed to take the second spot and I guided Ted right in. When the guy brought our paperwork he said Ted did a great job of parking and he would not have a job if everyone could do that. Ted told him “my wife parks me!”
Ted had a conference call, we had lunch, then drove back to Bowling Green to the Russell outlet. Ted buys his underwear there along with shirts. I bought underwear and a cover up. There was a nail salon in the same area so Ted told me to have my nails done and he would find something to do. It was close to dinner time when we returned.
Then Ted banged his leg on a pipe coming from the ground next to the water outside. I wanted him to get stitches but he wouldn’t. Men! It was more of a scraping the skin aside so stitches probably wouldn’t have helped. I cleaned it, put antibiotic cream on it, bandaged it and gave him a starter dose of amoxicillin. I will keep him off it for at least a day and watch it closely.
Tuesday we stayed home to keep Ted’s leg up. It is doing well. No bleeding, no pain, no signs of infection. By a Wednesday we were more than ready to go to Nashville. First up was the Parthenon. We have been to Nashville many times but just have never stopped to visit Centennial Park.
- “The Parthenon in Centennial Park, in Nashville, Tennessee, is a full-scale replica of the original Parthenon in Athens. It was designed by Confederate veteran William Crawford Smith and built in 1897 as part of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition.”
From there we traveled through the Belle Meade upscale area to Cheekwood Park. There are gardens, a mansion and a golf course. A Chihuly exhibition was being shown in the gardens but we did not have time to visit the mansion.
Here is the statue of Athena and her shield for perspective. The 24 foot high doors were at the entrance to the temple with Ted for perspective.
From there we traveled through the upscale area of Belle Meade to Cheekwood a park of gardens, a mansion and a golf course. A Chihuly exhibition was being displayed in the gardens. The photos will give you an idea of the beauty we enjoyed.
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