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- Day 1
- Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
- ☁️ 86 °F
- Altitude: 515 ft
United StatesHalfway39°37’31” N 77°46’34” W
And so it begins...
July 26 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 86 °F
On Saturday morning, we piled in the van and began the 8 hour trek to Dry Ridge, Kentucky. Brian and Zach managed to engineer a cargo roof rack on top of our van. We bought it used but we didn'tRead more
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- Day 2
- Sunday, July 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
- 🌩️ 88 °F
- Altitude: 472 ft
- United StatesBoone County38°52’50” N 84°45’15” W
So many signs...so few bison
July 27 in the United States ⋅ 🌩️ 88 °F
On our 3 mile hike, we took the detour to try to find some of the bison herd. It's really hot and humid here today. We walked around the gravel trail desperately in search of those magnificentRead more
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- Day 2
- Sunday, July 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
- 🌩️ 88 °F
- Altitude: 472 ft
- United StatesBoone County38°52’50” N 84°45’15” W
Big Bone Lick State Park
July 27 in the United States ⋅ 🌩️ 88 °F
After a restful night's sleep and a relaxed breakfast, we headed to Big Bone Lick State Park. This beautiful area is known for a few things:
1. It's the place where animals would come to lick theRead more
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- Day 2
- Sunday, July 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
- 🌩️ 90 °F
- Altitude: 492 ft
- United StatesBoone County38°56’32” N 84°50’47” W
Rabbit Hash Kentucky
July 27 in the United States ⋅ 🌩️ 90 °F
Rabbit Hash Kentucky is a small town about 20 minutes from Big Bone Lick State Park. We decided to visit because
1. The General Store dates back to 1831.
2. The General Store has live music, candies,Read more
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Nice pic of the general store, and a late-model, mid-engine Chevy Corvette. (Mid-Engine Key: look for the rearward air-scoops, cooling rearward radiators, on the post-2021 or 2022 models). Almost IMSA racing sports cars for the street!
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- Day 2
- Sunday, July 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
- ☁️ 79 °F
- Altitude: 863 ft
- United StatesDry Ridge38°40’27” N 84°37’15” W
Skyline chili
July 27 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 79 °F
There is a Skyline Chili restaurant just a mile away from our Vrbo house. People either love or hate Cincinnati style chili, and our family LOVES it.
It is such a treat when we are in this area.
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- Day 3
- Monday, July 28, 2025 at 9:12 AM
- ☁️ 79 °F
- Altitude: 472 ft
- United StatesCincinnati39°5’45” N 84°31’13” W
Who Dey!!!
July 28 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 79 °F
On Monday morning, we got the chance to attend a Bengals training camp practice. We hadn't planned this, but when we drove through Cincinnati on Saturday, we got the idea to check into it.
It turnsRead more
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- Day 3
- Monday, July 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
- ☁️ 81 °F
- Altitude: 587 ft
- United StatesCincinnati39°6’15” N 84°31’2” W
Riverview Park
July 28 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 81 °F
After the downpour stopped, we walked to Riverview Park. It was overcast, so we had the place to ourselves. There were lots of interactive things to do. Our favorite was the flying pig.
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- Day 3
- Monday, July 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
- ☁️ 81 °F
- Altitude: 587 ft
- United StatesCincinnati39°6’15” N 84°31’2” W
Izzy's and Frisch's Big Boy
July 28 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 81 °F
I may have mentioned that we had a list of Cincinnati restaurants we wanted to hit for old time's sake. We visited 2 of them today. Lunch was at Izzy's delicatessen. We love those Reubens and potatoRead more
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- Day 3
- Monday, July 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
- ☀️ 81 °F
- Altitude: 512 ft
- United StatesNewport39°5’36” N 84°29’45” W
Newport Aquarium part 2
July 28 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 81 °F
Here are more cool aquarium pics.
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- Day 3
- Monday, July 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
- ☁️ 82 °F
- Altitude: 502 ft
- United StatesNewport39°5’40” N 84°29’52” W
Newport aquarium
July 28 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 82 °F
We drove across the Ohio River to the Newport Aquarium. We had not been since the kids were quite young.
It's one of our favorite aquariums.
We all have a new favorite sea creature: the Shark- Ray.Read more
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- Day 4
- Tuesday, July 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
- ☀️ 84 °F
- Altitude: 909 ft
- United StatesWilliamstown38°37’20” N 84°35’17” W
Screaming Eagle Zipline
July 29 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 84 °F
On Tuesday morning, we headed to Williamstown, Kentucky, to go to the Ark Encounter. We had made reservations for the Screaming Eagle Zipline at 10;30, so that was our first stop.
After a briefRead more
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There's a couple of tough, obscure puns in Italian-alias Bruno's Strava GPS performance tracking title. 1 moto, 1 Biblical. Taking guess' now.
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- Day 4
- Tuesday, July 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
- ☀️ 90 °F
- Altitude: 906 ft
- United StatesWilliamstown38°37’23” N 84°35’40” W
Noah's Ark
July 29 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 90 °F
The Answers in Genesis ministry has spent over a decade constructing a life-size model of Noah's Ark. They used the account in Genesis and researched the technology that existed in that day to be asRead more
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- Day 4
- Tuesday, July 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
- ☀️ 90 °F
- Altitude: 902 ft
- United StatesWilliamstown38°37’24” N 84°35’40” W
Ararat Zoo
July 29 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 90 °F
Outside of the ark is the Ararat Zoo.. They have an interesting and odd collection of animals at this zoo. We were under a heat advisory, so we possibly did not enjoy the zoo as much as we would haveRead more
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- Day 4
- Tuesday, July 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
- ☀️ 82 °F
- Altitude: 863 ft
- United StatesDry Ridge38°40’27” N 84°37’15” W
Carousel and Emzara's Buffet
July 29 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F
Our plan for the day was that we would eat breakfast at our house, then have trailmix as a quick snack after ziplining and not eat a real meal until 5pm. We followed this plan and worked up quite anRead more
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- Day 5
- Wednesday, July 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
- ☀️ 86 °F
- Altitude: 830 ft
- United StatesLexington38°9’3” N 84°31’25” W
Trail Ride
July 30 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 86 °F
We checked out of our rental house, packed up all our belongings, and headed to the Kentucky Horse Park.
It was a beautiful day, and Hannah and I decided to take a trail ride around the Park.
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- Day 5
- Wednesday, July 30, 2025 at 11:42 AM
- ☀️ 86 °F
- Altitude: 830 ft
- United StatesLexington38°9’3” N 84°31’25” W
Kentucky Horse Park
July 30 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 86 °F
We are still under a heat advisory, so we split our day between looking at actual horses outside and touring the International Horse Museum in the air conditioning.
We watched the Champion showcaseRead more
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- Day 5
- Wednesday, July 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
- ☀️ 86 °F
- Altitude: 1,125 ft
- United StatesWolfe County37°41’32” N 83°37’11” W
Canopy 7 Treehouse
July 30 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 86 °F
After leaving the Kentucky Horse Park, we headed to our next rental home. It's in the "town" of Rogers, KY and is beautifully in the heart of the Daniel Boone National Forest and the Red River Gorge.Read more
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- Day 6
- Thursday, July 31, 2025 at 9:11 AM
- ☁️ 77 °F
- Altitude: 994 ft
- United StatesWolfe County37°45’36” N 83°39’54” W
Gorge Underground Kayak Tour
July 31 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 77 °F
Bright and early Thursday morning, we drove to The Gorge Underground Kayak adventures. We took a tour in which we paddled kayaks through an underground lake.
The cave is an old mine that sat abandonedRead more
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- Day 6
- Thursday, July 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
- ☁️ 86 °F
- Altitude: 735 ft
- United StatesPowell County37°47’33” N 83°42’15” W
Kentucky Reptile Zoo
July 31 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 86 °F
After eating at a local restaurant, we stopped at a small reptile zoo. This one had quite a few venomous snakes, but the zoo works with several research facilities. They donate the venom for researchRead more
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- Day 6
- Thursday, July 31, 2025 at 6:46 PM
- ☁️ 82 °F
- Altitude: 1,122 ft
- United StatesWolfe County37°41’32” N 83°37’12” W
Natural Bridge State Park
July 31 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 82 °F
After kayaking, we headed for Natural Bridge State Park, which was only about a 6 minute drive.
The hike up to the bridge was quite strenuous. So. Many. Steps.
Also, the final steps leading up to thisRead more
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- Day 7
- Friday, August 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
- ☁️ 77 °F
- Altitude: 748 ft
- United StatesPowell County37°47’21” N 83°41’40” W
Gray's arch
August 1 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 77 °F
Our big hike eventually brought us to Gray's Arch. This is another beautiful natural arch in this part of Kentucky. I think this is my favorite of all the hikes we have done on this trip. The coolRead more
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- Day 7
- Friday, August 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
- ☁️ 75 °F
- Altitude: 748 ft
- United StatesPowell County37°47’21” N 83°41’40” W
Kentucky's Tropical Forest
August 1 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 75 °F
We began our Friday with a drive into the Red River Gorge. We took a 4 mile hike through beautiful woods and fascinating sandstone formations. It was a beautiful morning. The temperature was hoveringRead more
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- Day 8
- Saturday, August 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
- ☁️ 79 °F
- Altitude: 978 ft
- United StatesLexington38°2’11” N 84°35’58” W
Pilot Knob Hike
August 2 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 79 °F
Friday evening, we did laundry, built a campfire (sort of), and soaked in the hot tub. We love the hot tub after a day of hiking. Our muscles are feeling great.
Saturday morning, Brian and I re-packedRead more
TravelerFYI - I've added about a 1/3 more pics since Jomar 1st uploaded the footprint. This is pretty typical, so take a later look back, again. Good ex., Hannah and Zach uploaded copperhead snake pics at the end of Gray's Arch (or around that 1). They were brave, I was not (was freaking out)!
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- Day 9
- Sunday, August 3, 2025 at 10:09 AM
- ☀️ 72 °F
- Altitude: 863 ft
- United StatesChilton44°1’19” N 88°9’20” W
Lime Kiln Hike
August 3 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 72 °F
Saturday night, we landed at Green Bay Airport and then drove down to Appleton. On Sunday morning, we drove to High Cliffs State Park to walk along Lake Winnebago. The Canadian wildfires are stillRead more
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- Day 9
- Sunday, August 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
- ☀️ 75 °F
- Altitude: 942 ft
- United StatesTown of Plymouth43°48’11” N 87°59’21” W
Road America
August 3 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 75 °F
After a brief hike in Appleton, we drove down to Elkhart Lake to watch the IMSA car races.
The Road America track is very beautiful, but also very long.
We thought we walked around all of it, but weRead more
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Thule racks of Sweden 🇸🇪 wants $127 for 4 of these, hardware mounting kit - and couldn't get them to me in time. I spent some time and $26 at Tractor and Fleet, and over-engineered my own (& Zach labor too).
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We were so hungry, waiting until Columbus, OH to eat, we forgot to photo these Wisconsin's hearty meals! I bought a WI Swiss Melt burger for the road (only 1/2 made it to the road, in this Culver's bag). Recommended WI cuisine, and Columbus, OH being as far East as they come, ... so far. WI,... yes, we got ice cream at the end, of course.
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I got Zach and I started very early Sat, to load the roof cargo carrier and luggage. That, in part because I was torn on the AM of the day. The Ritchie Boys family reunion was at Fort Ritchie, Cascade, MD today. German-Jewish immigrants pre-WW2 that our military used for intelligence, culture learning/language skills and non-violent interrogation of German soldier/POW's. 60 min special on them, info only revealed 55-60 yrs. later!