A Little Road Trip

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Not much of a road trip, just a drive down to Radcliff (which is the town outside of the Fort Knox Army post). I guess Lou Avul is tired of me being in her part of town, so I stayed on my own side! The drive down Dixie Highway was incredible. At one point you come across the small town of West Point, which is at the confluence of the Salt and Ohio Rivers. I’ve discussed the “tourist destinations” there before: things that would appeal to history buffs and very few others, like a Lewis & Clark tour and Civil War sites (see my older post about Fort Duffield). I stopped at the Veterans Park, which is right on the Ohio River, for the bottom picture. I watched a barge make a U-turn while admiring the beauty of the trees on the other side of the river. On down to Radcliff, where I got some cheap gas (as in, 60c a gallon cheaper) and stopped for a walk at the Kentucky Veterans Cemetery. The top two photos were taken there, including the one showing the somber beauty of the markers amid the autumn foliage. I saw a VFW honor guard van come in, so I didn’t stay long, knowing there’d be a funeral procession showing up soon. The drive down and back didn’t take that long, and it was stunning the entire way thanks to the tree-covered hills surrounding the road the entire trip.