Owensboro, Kentucky, to Falls of Rough, Kentucky -- 45 miles

We woke at 5:15 am and took time to enjoy the big complimentary continental breakfast – waffles, bagels, donuts, cereal, orange juice, fruit and coffee. We started biking at 6:45 am. Route 54 was a busy 4-lane highway heading out of town, so we biked on the sidewalk when we could. The road became 2 lanes on the outskirts of town, but we turned off and rode on Old Hwy. 54 for about 5 miles, a residential road with no traffic. We stopped at service station in Whitesville to fill our water bottles. There was a bank attached to the convenience store – in the lobby, they had a skeleton wearing a baseball cap with the name of the bank on it and a sign around his neck that said, “Worked to the bone”. 

As we were heading out of town, Lorraine’s front tire slipped where the road dropped off and she fell. Fortunately, she only scraped her knee and arm. Mike Lindsey from Whitesville stopped his truck and walked over to see if we were okay. The people of Kentucky have been wonderful to us! Lenny wanted to send Lorraine home again, but she told him that she would overcome adversity to reach her goal of finishing the trip. One of her adversities is Lenny himself! 

As we biked along the back roads, we saw a sign in front of a house that said, “Beware of dog and wolf.” Lenny would have stopped to take a picture if he wasn’t so scared! We stopped for Pepsi at a service station in Falls of Rough, our destination town for the day. We stayed at the St. Clair Motel and spoke to Betty Jarboe, the proprietor, for a while. Lenny spoke to Dan and Kim from Louisville about our trip and took their photos, along with their children Danielle and Tyler. We had a filling dinner at Gene’s Restaurant. Lorraine made Lenny watch “Fashion Emergency” and old reruns of “Family Feud” on TV!