Day 15 September 12, 2025 Owensboro 94 miles
Today is to be warmer than yesterday. The skies are mostly sunny. We didn’t wear our sweatshirts very long today.
Rob spent several minutes looking for the small emergency battery to use to start the car. The car battery is completely dead after yesterday’s event. Well that emergency device from Costco didn’t work. One of the other drivers went looking for helpers to push or tow the car. What he found was another driver with a bigger better jump start device. The car started on the second try. Rob let it run for several minutes before we departed.
The drive to Dream Riders was quite short. This facility helps people with special needs by using horses. They have been successful getting people to walk some and talk some. The horses are between 14 and 18 years of age. They have a nice indoor arena to ride in with some minor obstacles to maneuver around. We parked on a hill so that Rob could pop the clutch to start the car if necessary. Thankfully the car started right off.
Then we drove through the countryside for about an hour. Once again up and down hills of various sizes and around curves that can be gentle or sharp. Still lots of corn and soy beans but one field of a different kind of tobacco. Some of the houses have huge yards that must take all day to mow even with a riding lawn mower. The houses are quite a variety. Some are big and new. Some are small and old.
We arrived at the Bill Monroe Museum. Bill Monroe is considered the father of Bluegrass music. The building was full of items from his life. Connie took pictures of the important things in the museum which were two quilts. We picked up lunch tickets and a wrist band here. The wrist band is for the Bluegrass Festival which is next on the agenda.
The festival is held at Bill Monroe’s home place. They have a few food trucks plus other venders. Numerous groups will perform throughout the festival. We stood in line for nearly an hour to get our sandwich. It was really good with lots of meat. We got lucky and found a place to sit. The music was playing in the distance so the volume was okay.
The return trip was much the same. Narrow winding roads through farming country. We did have two people flag us down to a stop and ask what was going on. We made their day. Others must have known because they were sitting out in lawn chairs with snacks.
Tonight was the closing banquet which was much like the rest. They did not give awards for oldest driver, youngest driver or who drove the furthest. The room was freezing. One of the few times we were glad to get outside when it was over.
The bracket fix holding the alternator in place worked great. The car battery was back to a full charge by the end of the day. We do have a very small coolent leak. It is not real obvious where it is coming from so it probably won’t get fixed until it gets worse. The car is still running very cool for the current warm/hot weather.
Forgot to say yesterday that the odometer read 66666.
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