Day 20

Explosive

Good morning from Shelbyville Kentucky! For all of your Simpsons fans out there, there is a Springfield in Kentucky but I am not sure where it is. I have some memory of my brother once telling me Kentucky is the only state with a Shelbyville and a Springfield but I'm not sure if that is true. Our ride took us through Bourbon County which means it was time to STOP AND SEE HOW BOURBON IS MADE.

After 30 miles we all stopped for a quick tour at the Woodford Reserve. The place was a little overwhelmed when we all walked in shouting "I want Bourbon!". The tour guide showed us around the small facility. Afterwords during our free taste, it occur ed to me as excited as everyone was to go to a Bourbon distillery, no one actually likes Bourbon. I guess the thought of alcohol while biking just sounds exciting.

After lunch Pat and Corey decided to teach me a lesson in how slow I am. While biking in a small group with 5 or so riders I glanced to my left to see Corey flying by me at 30 MPH. Francis picked up his wing and I heard Pat saying "I'm getting on this" as he jumped in the back and picked up the draft to light speed. Unfortunately for me I am a pretty unexplosive person and couldn't get off the line and couldn't keep the pace. Pat swears he will teach me the power of exploding!

I continued the afternoon by swimming in a river with clay banks. While sticking my feet in the banks it reminded me of 6th grade art class. Lisa and I took a detour to the state capitol where we frolicked in the grass and sprinklers. While biking through the capitol both Lisa and I knew we were in the capitol on Kentucky.....but we had both forgotten the name of the town. It was not until we approached the capitol building when I finally realized the name was FRANKFORT. Mr. Duke my 5th grade teacher would be so upset.

We ended in the small town of Shelbysville. Instead of sticking around and going to the county fair across the street.....we packed as many legal drinkers in the van and headed to the big city of Louisville!

Louisville is only 25 miles away, which is our biking destination today (which is awesome), and Pat spent a summer here.......so he took us to the hottest party in town......4th Street live. 4th street live is a part of the city they shut down at night to allow of drinking in the streets. It is almost like a mall where you can carry alcohol around. The bars and drinks were only a warm up for our return to the church where Pat and Bertoli had figured our the lighting system and microphones to the STAGE in the church we were sleeping. Upon our return, Francis and Pat ran on stage and started singing classic favorites like "Kung Foo Fighting" and the theme to the Ghostbusters. Lisa and Bertoli danced the night away deep into the night and now we are off for one of the shortest rides of the trip into Louisville!

It still has yet to really rain on us, although that may happen today with a chance of thunderstorms! I hope all is well in everyone's lives. Keep the commenting up and let me know how you are doing.

-Ben