Just Driving Around Pictures

 Location: Laural Branch Corps of Engineers Campground; on the banks of Rough River Lake which is about an hour or so southwest of Louisville, Kentucky

The tow to get here was almost three hours on some narrow state highways. The type of narrow-ness that if you "hook" a wheel off the edge of the road it will put you in the ditch quick. I've been pressing my luck on my choice of roads during the last few weeks. I still believe in what I said for years, "tow on the interstates and explore on the blue highways". The main reason for that is if something happens while towing there would be a shoulder to use to get off the road. Some of these roads I've towed on lately have been less than 11 feet wide. I can tell the width because they didn't have an edge line. Edge lines are used on roads with 11 foot wide lanes or wider. Oh well, I guess I'll continue to push my luck some more because after Louisville, there aren't a lot of Interstates or four-lane highways on my planned route. Fingers crossed. This post is going to be overloaded with road pictures. All are from central to northern Kentucky.

You can tell the kind of weather I was towing in. Popcorn showers (rain popping up here and there). None were real heavy.

 

This is what I usually think of when I think of rural Kentucky. The only thing missing was horse in the fields.

This was a nice road with shoulders. You can see a little of the hills.

I took this one because of the cow looking at me. I know it wasn't a Texas Longhorn, but it did have long horns.

The last country road shot. In future posts, if I forget to satisfy my promise to post road shots, remember I overloaded them in this post.

This campground was a replacement. I received an email from Recreation.com, the federal campground reservation website, that my reservation at Axtel Campground was canceled due to flooding. I was lucky to find a site at this campground which was only a few miles away, on the same lake, but on higher ground. It has three loops, and one is flooded but the other two are open. I appreciate the Corps not closing it because I'm sure they were tempted to do so. It's a nice campground in the middle of nowhere. The sites are level, paved and mostly shaded. My cell signal is weak but reliable. I set up Starlink for the first time in a while. I found an opening in the trees and hoped it would work. It's not a blazingly high speed but very usable. I put the receiver on my tripod for the first time. It worked well but I need to find a weight to hang under it, just in case.

I hitched up in the rain and set up camp in the rain. I didn't mind it at all. It was the first time I've done in a couple of years and change is always a good thing. How boring would it be to hitch and tow in pretty weather all the time?

I'm guessing people canceled their reservations due to the rain because the campground was only about half filled. That is Rough River Lake in the background. That would have been a good campsite.

This is the loop in the campground that was closed due to flooding. Notice the trees standing in water. Those kinds of trees are not suppose to do that. 

That's my Starlink on the small tripod at the back corner of Liberty. Starlinks need to point north and mostly lay flat. I'm still very satisfied with mine.

I took this picture for future documentation. This is pointed up from the Starlink receiver. That hole in the tree coverage is what is allowing the satellite connection. I'm satisfied that I could find enough opening to connect in most campgrounds.

I drove around the area on day 2 of 3 with nothing specific in mind to explore. It was a nice drive and I ended up in a small town where I filled Freedom up with gas and got a special lunch at Dairy Queen. For $7.00 I got a cheeseburger, fries, drink and sundae. Good deal, Lucille. While sitting in DQ eating my good deal, I thought hmmmmm,,,, how many times have I ate a meal like this in small town and not know a living soul for several hundred miles around? My second thought was there had been times in the past where it was over a thousand miles so I should be happy. I wasn't happy but I also wasn't sad. Melancholy probably isn't correct either. I need to think on it some more.

Two of my favorite places, Dairy Queen and Walmart. I didn't go in Walmart but enjoyed DQ. All of the workers in the DQ were much older than usual which may have accounted for the above average service and quality of food. Good job, ya'll.

Tomorrow is moving day and I'll be going to an Indiana State Park that I've been to before. I'll use it to be close enough to Louisville, Kentucky to attend my granddaughter's archery tournament on Saturday. It is the Eastern National Finals. It will be a long day on Saturday but I'm looking forward to it. 

I've seen more and more of these large flags on this trip. Much more than on past trips. Patriotism is flourishing in the country. 

Ya'll take care of each other. Maybe I'll Cya down the road.