Monthly Archives: July 2010
The Rally – Early Bird Day 2…
Today we decided to try another well-known restaurant here in the Louisville area, although in this case it’s actually in Indiana, which of course is just right across the Ohio River from Louisville. So we left about 11:15 am heading about 25 miles north and out in the country to the Joe Huber Family Farm and Restaurant.
The Huber family has owned this 200 acre farm since 1843, but the restaurant got its start in 1967 when the family begin advertising “Pick Your Own” fruits and vegetables. It turns out that the customers were hungry after picking in the fields, so the family began serving box lunches.
Then in 1983 they built the restaurant that began it all. Today it’s a tourist destination, with a petting zoo, gardens, rides, gift shops, and meeting halls for wedding receptions, reunions, and company picnics.
And the restaurant is great! Here’s my Country Platter Dinner.
It had Fried Chicken, Country Ham, Corn, Cole Slaw, Chicken N Dumplings, Mashed Potatoes, and Green Beans. And It was “All You Can Eat”
Believe me, this was all I could eat. In fact I had to take some home.
And the grounds were very nice, too.
After a great meal, we got back to rig about 2 pm, and it seemed like a good time for a nap.
Then, about 3:30 pm we went over to look at the new RV’s on display. These next two photos are of 2010 American Eagle, the same one as our 1999 Eagle. This one lists for $580,000.00. Guess we’ll have to wait for that Mega-Millions winning ticket.
One of the other rigs we looked at was this Prevost from Parliament Coach in Florida.
We really need a place to store our crystal glassware!
And what’s even better, you can buy it today for half price, only $975,000. What a deal!
Then about 6 pm we walked over to Freedom Hall to see the Monarchs, a 60’s rock and roll group. Two of the band are original members from when the band formed in 1960. They had a number of hits, including “Look Homeward, Angel”, which made it to #13 on the Billboard Chart. They toured with Dick Clark, The Beach Boys, The Righteous Brothers, Dion, and Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, among others. I remember seeing them in Birmingham, AL in 1965 on the Dick Clark’s Cavalcade of Stars. And they still sound good.
After the concert we walked back across the parking lot to our truck, passing a display of old RV’s.
This one looks like the one from Lucy and Desi’s “The Long, Long, Trailer”.
We got back to the rig about 9 pm and started planning our day tomorrow.
More then…
Quote of the day:
If you’re going to be dumb, you better be tough!
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The Rally – Early Bird Day 1…
I wanted to try and beat the rush this morning getting into The Rally so we left the Louisville South KOA about 7:45 am and drove about 20 miles north to the Kentucky Exposition Center and got in a fairly short line to enter the grounds.
Since we were “Will Call”, we were directed to a nearby area to unhook our toad and picked up our packet that told us where we would be parking. We placed the parking tag in the window and headed to our parking spot.
As we drove down the street we were directed to our assigned spot based on the color of our card. All in all, pretty smooth.
We got in and got parked in about 20 minutes. We only have 30 amp electric here so we’ll have to be careful with our water and sewer tanks.
About 9:30 we drove right down the street to a nearby Cracker Barrel for breakfast, which turned out to be somewhat of a mistake.
Not breakfast, it was great. But what we didn’t think about was getting back into the Expo Center. Because now there was a long line of RV’s trying to get in. And there was only one entrance during RV parking, so ended up taking us over 30 minutes just to get back in.
But before going back to the rig, we parked nearby to where we thought registration was. But it turned the lady had given us incorrect information and we ended up walking almost 3/4 of a mile thru a maze of corridors and escalators to get to the registration area. But we smarten up coming back, and took the shuttle back around the loop.
Getting back about 1 pm we settled in for a quite afternoon, but it was interrupted 3 or 4 times by the power going off. It wasn’t just us, but was the whole area. But apparently a nap took care of the problem, because when we woke we had had no more problems.
Out in the parking lot, we saw rigs everywhere we looked. Here we are below.
About 4:30 pm we headed out for Marks Feed Store, a nearby BBQ restaurant that turned out to be very good.
Getting back to the rig, we looked over the lists of vendors and seminars here at the rally, trying to figure what we want to see when everything starts on Thursday.
More tomorrow…
Quote of the day:
The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O. – Martin Mull
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