Cinnicati.. Cincicati.. CINCINNATI! 


Started the day visiting Cincinnati. Then a quick drive south to start Bourbon whisky trail in Kentucky. 

The day started frosty. I'm almost 2500 Km south from Helsinki and the nights are colder here! My hotel was near Cincinnati so I headed there for breakfast. It took some time to learn spell it right.. Cincinnati was a important gateway to river Ohio and Mississippi in the old days but today very little from that is left. The northern side is ugly commercial city with high modern buildings and the river bank has been completely destroyed with two huge stadiums. The southern part is slightly better and some of the old buildings remain. Some of the old river boats are there as cruise boats or restaurants.




Stadium and downtown buildings.




River boat departing for a cruise. River Ohio is steaming in the cold morning.


After Cincinnati I headed south to start Bourbon whisky trail in Kentucky. It was saturday afternoon and I was too late for Buffalo Trace distillery - the last tour was an hour ago. Next step was Four Roses where I caught the last tour of the day. Four Roses is one of the older distilleries and the buildings and machinery shows that - which is nice. I sampled some single cask whisky and it was quite good if not at the same level as good Single Malt. On Sunday I plan to visit Heaven Hill and Maker's Mark.




Kentucky Straight Bourbon flowing from the still.


Finding cheap hotels in late October is easy - most of the roadside hotels are half empty. Unfortunately I manage almost always to attract very noisy people to the next room and the noise insulation is non-existent in these hotels.



My home in Bardstown.


Cheap hotels do not offer internet access to rooms so I'm now visiting Starbucks to stay connected. I never understood the idea of using laptops in cafe's but now I do. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that GSM/GPRS works here worse than in Iceland, for example..

Driving in the eastern states is more aggressive than what I'm used to in California. Especially the big interstate roads are bad - they are full of trucks and the trucks drive as fast as they can. I usually set cruise control to 70-75 mph. The big trucks often overtake me in downhills (they go more than 80 mph) but cannot keep that speed in uphill so I have to overtake them and then it starts again. Fortunately I have reasonable agile car so I can out run the (other) maniacs on the road.
 

Posted: Su - Lokakuu 30, 2005 at 03:01 ap.          

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