Jeffersonville, Indiana: 310 miles, 10 hours, 1.5 miles, 15 caches, 2 new states, Merci Boxcar, State Capitol.

We started at 8:20, just heading north, and by 9:30 we were at the Kentucky line. At the first rest area we met other cachers. It was rainy, so we decided not to go look for the cache there, which is probably gone anyway. I did laugh at the "Stone 38 Replica" which was moved from somewhere else anyway.

At one place we stopped, where we got our first Kentucky cache, we could see a truck with "HELL is real!" painted on the side, and in the distance along the highway, a huge sign advertising "ADULT Books and Videos." At one rest area (where we ran into more cachers) there was a HUGE truck (about 150' long) with some piece of very heavy equipment on it. We were on the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Expressway. Ha.

We finally turned off of Abe's superhighway and headed toward his birthplace. This is just funny: it's a log cabin, which was taken apart and shipped around the country, then brought back here, or at least some logs were, and cut down to size to fit into a big memorial. Somehow, the thrill of authenticity was missing. We'd heard from some geocachers we saw there (yes) that there was a virtual cache at the place, which somehow missed my list, but I cleverly googled the answers later. To our surprise, we were in Eastern time, the rest of the day.

A number of Amish were here: out in the parking lot I didn't see a bus or big van, and wonder how they got there. In Hogdenville they were putting out flags for Memorial Day. We saw another Lincoln site and the Kentucky Merci Boxcar. Near Gethsemani Abbey there are a lot of little shrines in people's yards. At one point, looking at the GPS, we were 38 miles from our motel, 34 from our turn off Abe's Superhighway, and 37 miles from the state Capitol. In fact, while it took quite some time to see all this, I had severely overestimated how hard this day would be and we should have gone to church after all.

Kentucky's capitol building is quite impressive, and there's a floral clock nearby that is gorgeous. After doing a little caching in Frankfort, we headed back to Louisville and found a nice cache. I watched a tractor pooping hay bales. From now on, they're tractor pellets.

In Louisville we found the cache at the site of Geowoodstock One. A Louisville Slugger game was going on across the street, but we found parking, so went to look at the Ohio and get an earth cache. Then we worked our way across the river to our motel. Nobody was in the office. We waited and waited and I started trying to think how I would get my money back when we went to a different place. Finally the one employee comes puffing back... she'd been showing a room. Not a very bright lady: she wanted to make me wait longer, she couldn't cope, and the Internet is obviously something strange. This was NOT a Choice hotel and after the nice accommodations at the Sleep Inn in Murfreesboro, I was less than thrilled. However, we finally got our reserved room (why do they always put you on the top floor?) and relaxed.

We went to eat at Logan's roadhouse. Oh, yeah, peanuts on the floor, we have eaten at one before. The place we don't dare take Niki.