You can’t get there…

 “You Can’t Get There From Here”

Mike and I decided to take a different route from our home in Inverness, Florida to our house in Ohio. We wanted to see if we could find a suitable route that would get us to the west part of Kentucky and avoid Atlanta. 

I’m not “dissing” Georgia. I know many people who live in that southern state. Good people. But the traffic on the interstate through Atlanta is not always “user friendly.”

Bowling Green is west of our normal route and one of our plans involves a trip to Bowling Green, Kentucky. Why Bowling Green? Because the Corvette manufacturing plant and museum is located in that part of Kentucky.

We headed out on a Saturday in the truck. We didn’t need to pack much, but since our ultimate destination was Southwestern Ohio, Mike wanted to take some lawn care stuff like weed eaters and such for the house there. 

Every Trip is Better with Buc-ees

I had maybe …maybe, driven through the Florida Panhandle once that I can vaguely remember. It was at night. Since we would be traveling US Highway 65 to Kentucky, Mike and I headed north to the Panhandle and then west before cutting north through Alabama. What a beautiful state! The traffic was light and the weather perfect. Our only (somewhat) congestion was around Montgomery, Alabama. All in all, we could see how the route would serve us well in our smaller vehicle. Our roads took us from Florida to Alabama to Tennessee to Kentucky.

That part of the journey was wonderful. But traveling at night from Bowling Green, Kentucky to Ohio wasn’t what we expected. This was dark, unfamiliar territory until we suddenly turned a corner and there was the Cincinnati skyline ahead of us. Lit up like a festival. We finally knew where we were and the way home. 

We finally arrived at the house in Ohio around, in Mike's words, "Dark-thirty."

And, as the saying goes, “There’s No Place Like Home”.