My wife and I are long time residents of Western Kentucky who share a traveling bone and a bone dry wallet. After considerable waring between our wallet and our traveling bone, and with a badly beaten wallet, we intervened and negotiated a cease fire with terms amenable to each. Our wallet, now in recovery, breathes easier with the understanding that he'll only have to suffer through one vacation each summer and our traveling bone has learned the joy of day tripping.
Day tripping as defined by the purposes of this blog is the travel for leisure purposes to any destination that can be made round trip by car in a single day. Furthermore in order to qualify as day tripping the drive time must allow for at least 3-4 hours of entertainment, sight seeing, or exploring in between the trip to and the trip from or en-route to and from the destination. The trip may or may not involve hotel accommodation but an overnight stay should not be necessitated by the distance of the trip.
The purpose of this blog is to inform, educate, and motivate you, the reader, to put one foot in front of the other and see what lies beyond the edge of your own city map. We will not bore you with details of every potty break or happy meal run initiated by the nagging joy of travel with a six year old but you will find tips for travel with children from time to time. We will not devote a great deal of attention to the things common to us in our locale but we understand that our readers will come from many places throughout Western Kentucky, Southern Indiana, Southern Illinois and even parts of Tennessee. Therefore we will help you discover, and hopefully re-discover ourselves, the joys of the more unique and notable attractions that may have become "every day" to us. Our blog will feature destination blogs, tip blogs and the occasional philosophical ramblings of the author.
Destination blogs should first and foremost get you where you want to go. We'll start with the end in mind, a notable main attraction, what to do while you're in the area and what sites are along the way. Use our sample itinerary to plan your day or choose from other nearby attractions noted in the blog. Each destination blog will also include prices of attractions to help you budget your trip and places you may want to avoid whether for safety or the preservation of virtue.
Use our tip blogs to learn more about things that may make your travels in general more pleasant and safe. Learn about how to make traveling with toddlers more tolerable, how to travel with pets, and seasonal car maintenance. Like to take pictures of your travels? Learn tips on organizing photo albums, scrap books etc...
I look forward to sharing my trips with all of you. Happy travels to everyone and remember "It's a dangerous business, going out of your door. You step into the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." (J.R.R. Tolkien Lord of the Rings, Fellowship of the Ring)
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