Day Four: "Adobe. Can Y'all Say That With Me?"

Apologies, everyone. The weak wireless signals are continuing to mess with my ability to post pictures. I'll focus on text for now.

Day Four
Starting Point: Holiday Motel in Berea, KY
End Point: Old Kentucky Home Motel in Bardstown, KY
Today's Distance: 81 miles
Total Distance So Far: 271 miles

Albums I Listened To Today:

Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan
The Frames - The Cost
The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike
Weezer - The Red Album
Matt & Kim - Grand

Lots to say about today. The guys killed it, doing 81 miles. I think their motivation was the end point for the ride, which was the Maker's Mark Distillery.

More on that later. I'm gonna try to find a better signal.

Alright. I guess it’ll have to be an all-text blog entry.

So last night, the guys got their bags packed for the next day, because they knew they had a long haul ahead of them. 6:15 wake-up call as usual, but they were on the road quickly. I hung back and packed the car.

Today was the 1st time the guys beat me to the lunch stop (Harrodsburg). They flew. It was like 10am. The Subway girls were quite the pranksters, locking their manager out (and in the process, locking us in). In the meantime, we discussed Family Matters (the tv show, not actual family matters. This is why capitalization is important).

After lunch, I drove ahead and quickly got to Bardstown, our stop for the evening. I booked us a room at the Old Kentucky Home Motel.

A side note: Of the many great lessons I’ve learned this trip, here’s the most substantial: the shadier the motel looks, the better it actually is. Here’s why:
o It’s usually run by a family, so the employees enjoy working there, and usually include a kind motherly figure
o They have incredibly low prices, not because they’re crappy, but because they have to compete against the big dogs, who get online bookings.
o They’re willing to haggle, again, because of the big dogs unwillingness to do so.
o They have to actually try in order to get people to stay there, so everything’s really clean
o They have character. This last one smelled like your grandma’s house. Yes, you specifically.

Anyway, I unloaded all the gear, because I was going to meet Brennan and Jason at the Maker’s Mark Distillery. They took the back roads there so they could show off their skin-tight outfits. They arrived just in time for the final tour of the day.

Mindy was our tour guide. She had some hilarious jokes about how hot it was in the buildings. She also said “ideal” instead of idea. Charming. Oh, and the title of this day's blog is loosely related to our experience with Mindy. It's a quote from a movie. Does anyone recognize it?

Let's make this a trivia question:

From what movie does this day's blog entry come? Bonus points if your answer includes another quote from the film. Even more bonus points if your answer includes a quote from the same scene.

Place your guesses in the comments. The answer tomorrow (no googling or cha-cha-ing, kids).

We started in the bottling room, because they were about to clock out for the day. There’s only one bottling line for the entire distillery. That surprised me. Didn’t it surprise you?



Then we got to stick our finger in the barrels as the corn (70%, mind you), fermented. That’s right, that Maker’s Mark you’re going to drink 6 or 7 years from now had our fingers in it. Deal with it.



































At the end of the tour, we got to have two mini-snifters of bourbon. One was 130 proof (what it’s like after the first of two distillings….is distillings a word?), and the other was 110 proof (what you get when you guy a bottle).

So that was cool. Then we got back to the motel, had dinner at Mammy’s Kitchen. You know what I’m talking about. Meat loaf. Hot Brown. Good stuff. Then it was poolside at the Old Kentucky Home until dark.

Tomorrow, we’ve got 40 miles to Louisville…..and we all just shaved ourselves into classic moustaches.

Many pictures to come.