• Home to the the famous Kentucky Bluegrass, tobacco, coal, and champion thoroughbred horses.
• Kentucky has more miiles of running water than any other state except Alaska.
• The roads and shoulders are narrow.
• State web site

Weather

• Hot and sticky. I'll hit Kentucky in mid- to late June so the weather will be a little toasty.

I look forward to the rolling hills and bluegrass of Kentucky once I descend from the Appalachian Mountains. This state has a unique history that greatly influences its

This state is renouned for its unleashed and stray dogs. A person in a car would hardly notice, but a person on a bicycle surely takes note of an unbound German Shepherd in front of a house. I will take the advice of others and carry a can of dog repellent (Halt!) with me.

Other attractions along the route

• Buckhorn Lake State Park
• Log Cathedral
• Berea, KY "The Folk Arts and Crafts Capital of Kentucky" - Boone Tavern Hotel, Berea College,
• Old Fort Harrod - "The Legend of Daniel Boone"
• Lincoln Homestead State Park
• Bardstown, KY - My Old Kentucky Home State Park, Jim Beam Distillery, Oscar Getz Museum, Old Talbott Tavern
• Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site
• Falls of Rough, KY - Green Farms General Store
• Cumberland Plateau
• Bluegrass country