in my travels 4

A nice sign along US 62 in Clarkson, Kentucky. 

A little horsey at an antique stop in Kentucky.

Rosine, Ketucky is the Home of Bluegrass Music.

Rosine is the "Home of the First Family of Bluegrass Music: Bill Monroe, The Father of Bluegrass." And you'll like these pages for info and photos about Rosine, Bill Monroe, and Bluegrass.

Look at me. Along US 62 in Kentucky.

The Gold Gallery in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

Dick's Liquor in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

US 41 and Hopkinsville, Kentucky

Before the end of an overcast January 15th, I got a motel room then went back out for a short drive around Hopkinsville, Kentucky. I would have liked to have had more time there. It seemed like an interesting place to take photos.

Edgar Cayce, the "Sleeping Prophet," spent some of his early years in Hopkinsville and it was where his gift was first discovered. He's buried in Riverside Cemetery in Hopkinsville.

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L & N Railroad Depot

Built in 1892, this was the L & N Railroad Depot at 425 E. 9th Street. Because it was the only legal spot to drink alcohol between Evansville, Indiana and Nashville, Hopkinsville got the nickname "Hoptown" because train passengers wanted to know if it was ok to "hop off" and get a quick drink.

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A wall in the center of town.

Across the street is the vacant Gold Gallery.

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Ferrell's Hamburgers

As I drove through Hopkinsville, trying to stay on US 41, I saw this sign for Ferrell's Hamburgers and it was the main reason I wanted to stop and take some photos. In the photo above, as I have it cropped, Ferrell's is not much bigger than that one room. I wish I had time for a burger but it was late in the day and I had more photos to take.

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Not sure if this was a single family home, a group home, a building turned into apartments, I just don't know, but it was a nice looking, old building.

Across the street was this shotgun home owned by someone who was into local politics.

An antique stop on US 41.

All afternoon there were radio reports of a sleet, freezing rain, and snow storm coming to western Kentucky and Tennessee and that's just where I was. So I went to sleep that night not knowing how much road I would be able to drive the next day.

Along US 62 in Kentucky

This was Day 2 (January 15) of my trip heading south from Detroit. I didn't know how long I would be gone or how far south I would get. Maybe Gulfport, Mississippi: I was in the US Navy Seabees, homeported there in the early to mid-1970's so that might be a destination. Honestly, all I had planned was to take back roads and listen to local radio as I drove. But anxious to get south, I spent the first day speeding through Ohio and north Kentucky till I got past Louisville. It was getting dark by then so I spent the night at a Motel 6 in Shepherdsville.

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So it's Day 2 and here's some of the sights along US 62 in Kentucky going from I-65 and Elizabethtown to US 41 and Nortonville.

It wasn't easy either to take pictures along this road. There was no shoulder so I had to turn around alot then find places to park or shoot quick and roll on. But I was trying to go slow and rubberneck so I had to wave around the cars behind me or pull off when I could and let them go past. No one seemed upset about it though (must have seen my Michigan plate).

I pulled over here because of this little house (above) but realized it was probably a craft shack used by the house next to it to sell antiques or something homemade and was probably filled with storage of whatever they were selling.

But it's obvious why I pulled over for this guy (below). I don't recall this being a working business but it wasn't abandoned either.

A rusted railway bridge.

This black barn was way up a steep hill at a driveway I used as a turn around.

This was (probably) another craft shack on US 62. A house was next to it.

This train car is a display at a little park along US 62. I saw others like this on my drive.

A house along the road.

Trailers loaded with logs.

One of many antique stops along the way.

An abandoned school. Lots of this where I come from.

Here's a freshly painted building. It used to be a gas station but there were no pumps in front so it's probably being converted to something else.

Somewhere ahead is US 41 where I'll turn and drive south to Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

Driving the Brent Spence Bridge

This is from Day 1 of my trip going south. I've driven over this bridge, back and forth, about a dozen times in the 1970's and about half a dozen since. I wanted to get through Cincinnati and into Kentucky but knew before I left Detroit that morning that I would spend some time filming this bridge. Here's a montage of clips as I drive over the Brent Spence Bridge on January 14th.

Wikipedia: The Brent Spence Bridge is a double decker cantilever truss bridge that carries Interstates 71 and 75 across the Ohio River between Covington, Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio. The top deck carries southbound traffic while the bottom deck carries northbound traffic.