Georgia, Kentucky and Indiana

After spending the day in St Augustine on Friday, we stayed at the Stagecoach RV park near there, nice park, but nothing there, not a place I would want to stay for any length of time. Saturday we started north again, drove to Jacksonville to check out the Total Wine and More store. Picked up a lot of stuff, some wine for Lisa, some bourbon and beer for me, stuff I can’t get or much cheaper than we can get back home.

Seeing as we are not in that big a hurry, when we left Jacksonville we started on the State roads going north instead of the Interstate. Lots of nice scenery, and Lisa likes it that we don’t have to share the roads with the truckers (they shake the RV a little when they pass us). Into Georgia we decided to head to Dublin GA just to say we had been there, and on the way I noticed a sign for a State Park. So Saturday night was spent at Little Ocmulgee Lodge Park.

Now this is a place I could spend some time at! Very nice camping facilities on a beautiful lake and it has a golf course! But I sure can tell we’re not in Florida anymore, woke up in the morning and as I let Molly out I could see my breath, temps are in the high 30s I think. We went down to the Lodge for breakfast, real nice buffet and less than $7 with coffee. They have packages here which combine golf and camping that seemed reasonable. About $270 for 7 days camping and unlimited green fees for 2 people, may have to look into this for next year.

Took off driving and made it to a Wal-Mart near Lexington, Kentucky for the night. In the morning we started back on the Bourbon Trail with our first stop scheduled as Woodford Reserve. A beautiful drive to get there, and then found out it is closed on Mondays….grrrrrrrr…so on to the next one which was Buffalo Trace. Now this was a very educational tour. Learned a few new things about the history of bourbon in Kentucky, into one of the bonded storage areas, watched them bottle some 20 year old Pappy Van Winkles, and back to the visitor center for a tasting. Some great bourbon here, and they also make a vodka (Rain Vodka) that was really smooth. It’s distilled seven times. The tour was almost 2 hours long. Afterward we drove to the Four Roses distillery for their tour.

This one was a little more hands on again, we went through the grain testing room and the production facilities. They do all the distilling here and then send it off for storage and bottling. We were even allowed to sample the “white dog” as it was coming off the column still (130 proof), and then as it was coming off the doubler (140 proof), which is essentially a pot still. (I think that Woodford Reserve is the only one that is strictly distilled in a pot still.) Then on to the tasting room, and back on the road headed to Columbus, Indiana for the night at Woods-N-Waters Campground.

As we hit the Indiana state line we start seeing snow again, back to reality I guess. In fact the campground has a inch of snow on the ground. Rained all night, and it is still a mixture of rain/snow as I type, hope it doesn’t affect us too much for the ride. We are planning on seeing the Dickersons today, but will play it by ear.

This may be the last post until we get home so see you all soon.