Wednesday, May 20, 2009

May 15th Breaks to Top Most, KY

We made it into Kentucky today which means we are over 550 miles into our trip. Wahoo!
The second we made it into Kentucky we started to notice a difference. There is trash all over the sides of the road, and trailers galore. Every home has either a dog tied to a chain, or in a small coop, or running free to chase bikers. It is really unnerving to be pedaling along at a decent cadence then to all of a sudden turn your head and see Farfel running at you with nothing but bloodlust on his mind. The dogs in Kentucky are ridiculous!!
We had a goal to reach a certain destination, but at 6 pm we were more than 20 miles away still (we got a late start due to really heavy fog in Breaks). We ended up meeting a guy at a mini mart who told us that we could pitch our tent on his aunt's property. So we rode up to his aunt's home, & when we got there she invited us in to stay in her extra room, for which we were very grateful. She lived in the house with her husband & grandson.
We showered & felt a little better and went to bed early. At midnight I woke up to her grandson trying to get in bed! I asked him what he was doing and he said "Sorry I forgot y'alls was here." And stumbled out of the room, obviously piss drunk. It was really weird but we figured maybe he was just drunk and disoriented. THEN twenty minutes later he barges right back in! Let me just stop to fully paint the picture. Little twit was in NOTHING but his boxers, smoking a cigarette, & barges in the room and ask "Can I lay down with you?" while trying to get under the covers. Mom told him no (obviously) and asked if it was his room) which he said yes (although earlier he had said no) and asked again if he could lay down with us!!! What the huh?
Needless to say it took me more than a couple hours to fall back asleep.
I did feel really bad, because the woman was really sweet and made us breakfast the next morning, but we were more than happy to get the heck out of there!!

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