Today we drove to Lexington, KY and took a self-guided auto tour of the Blue Grass Scenic Byway..
First stop was the Red Mile race track then on to the famous Keeneland Race Course...
They have daily horse racing in May and October... so we lucked out and went in to watch...
This was the paddock area where they walk the million dollar horses before the races, which are held every 30-minutes...
This is the bugler... Deb thought he looked like the dude that announces Dorothy Gale to the Wizard of Oz...
The crowd and grandstand as seen from the track rail...
The starting gate...
and the finish...
Deb checking the tote board...
Back to the tour... This is the house that was used in "Gone With The Wind"...
Part of the slat fence on a 2000 acre stud farm owned by some Arab Shiek... the fence costs $18,000 per mile before it is painted!
This is a castle that some dude started to build for his residence and then quit... he sold it three years ago to some other dude for $1.3 million... then there was a fire... and he is now starting over...
A Revolutionary War era church and cemetery...
One of the barns on the Shieks 2000 acres...
Slave walls... they are everywhere and miles long...
The new state penitentiary designed to fit into the horse farm surroundings...
Deb had a friend fly into the car...
This is a tobacco barn on a back road (for Joy)...
Another VERY nice barn...
Tonight we ate dinner in the Old Talbot Tavern in Bardstown buit in 1779...
It has a famous visitor list as long as your arm... Lincoln to Jesse James...
The visitors center in the middle of a the Main Street roundabout...
Deb is checking out the sidewalk storefronts while talking to Joy...
This is a war memorial that joy wanted me to see at night...Tomorrow, we will go see the sights around Bardstown...
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