Roadtrip 2024: Week 7 "Coming Home"
A lot of this last week was impacted by the rain from the hurricane and it made me realize how much I really depended on the great weather I had in all previous weeks. The week started with a two hour drive to Buffalo Trace in Frankfort, KY followed by a 15 minute wait in the downpour to enter the distillery and grab a bottle of the daily special (Blanton's) for a good friend and bourbon connoisseur. The distillery tour guided us through many of the various buildings and everyone was soaked to the bone when we finally could taste the precious golden fluid. I had planned to continue south back into Tennessee and return to NC via Smokey Mountain NP. It was clear this would not work and instead I headed east to Cumberland Gap NP where TN, KY and VA meet to see some more caves and spend the night. The next day I tried to head into NC via Bristol and Damascus, but the flood damage was too great to get through and I spend another night in TN on a lake close to Bristol. In the end I took