Lexington KY Geocaches

We saw two historic homes the few hours we were in Lexington KY on Friday of our geocaching time in the Cincinnati area. The first was the home of Mary Todd Lincoln.

Of course we did not have the time to go into the house/museum. We were on a mission...


Next stop, home of Henry Clay.

a farmer ahead of his time

quite the family home

ice cellar and dairy cellar

home side entrance to privy, smokehouse, gardens

privy and wash house

smokehouse

I enjoyed our walk around the grounds, exploring the different buildings and gardens. Very warm and humid, so we didn't waste any time lolly-gagging.

Getting to Lexington we traveled some country roads, narrow and not very busy. I enjoyed this part of the drive...

As we were leaving Lexington to get on I 75, we moved to the right lane to turn onto the cloverleaf ramp. We sat in the right lane of maybe 2 miles for almost an hour. As we inched closer to the interstate ramps, we realized the right lane traffic was heading south. Once we moved into the left lane and zipped around all the non-moving vehicles, we quickly got on the ramp to head north, back to Covington. There was an accident of some sort very near that south ramp as traffic was backed up for more than 5 miles as we headed north, moving right along. 

As I mentioned earlier, we were happy to leave the Cincinnati traffic and road systems. On two occasions, Hazel, our vehicle GPS told us we were driving alleys when we indeed were on interstates.  Between Hazel and sign reading, we both were happy to see the area in the rear view mirror. I'll take Phoenix traffic any day!

One more post of the geo adventure and then onto other topics...