Let's go way back to June 27 and the beginning of Dorcas and me vacationing in Kentucky. Joel drove with us to Columbus, Ohio, where we were the guests of Lois Maust, enjoying a meal at Hoggies, with a tractor hanging from the ceiling, and the best little ice cream place east of the Mississippi. Lois treated us to an exclusive screening of her Monarch butterfly documentary.
From that great hospitality, Joel went to the airport for his flight, and we headed for New Haven, Kentucky. There we found the little house we had reserved for four days.
From our base house, we launched out to Trappist (a type of monk) worship services based on singing the psalms, to a local excursion train ride, to me getting my 63rd birthday and the attendant gifts, particularly the camera which took these pics, and just loafing and reading: "working hard to make sure we didn't care about anything too much," as I heard someone say this summer.
We also attended a performance of "Stephen Foster: the musical," a show at the "My Old Kentucky Home State Park."
We went to Lexington, Kentucky, on Sunday and enjoyed a visit with Laban Miller and family and Jim Miller and family. Besides giving us lunch, the youth were launching out to Ohio for several days of a service project. Before they left some of them posed for this photo with their Aunt Dorcas on a sofa.
On our way to the next stop we drove through the Daniel Boone National Forest and saw some of the features of the Red River Gorge.
Then at the end of a roller coaster hills-of-Kentucky road we arrived at Snug Hollow, a bed and breakfast. What can I say:
Then, on the way home, a stop at Grantsville, where Ruth had breakfast and costumes. Very satisfying, the whole week.
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