It has been six weeks since we started working at Amazon.com It has been quite an experience. We were told ahead of time that we would find muscles we didn't know we had during the first week of working there. We thought that that wouldn't apply to us as we are in such good shape. Well, it didn't apply much to Gary but I sure found them all. I hurt all over and didn't think I could do it another day (and this was after the first 10 hour day). But, here I am and we will start our seventh week tomorrow. We work 4 days a week 10 hours a day. We walk to work and most of the time we walk back as well. We figure we must walk at least 8 miles a day and that is at a pretty fast pace as well. One good thing about it is that I can eat more than I usually do and I still lose weight. Have lost 6 pounds in 6 weeks and that feels good.
As you can see the campground was still being built but Welby and his family worked very hard, and are still doing so to make our stay as comfortable as possible. Welby is 79 years old and works as hard, if not harder, than any man way younger than he is.
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| Amazon.com view from our campsite |
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| Welby and Velma (owners of the campground) |
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| Our little trailer on the left. |
On our days off we did some sightseeing (if we didn't have to run errands like laundry or groceries shopping). One day we went to Louisville and toured the Louisville Slugger factory. We watched the baseball bats being made and we all got a small baseball bat as a souvenir.
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| In front of the Louisville Slugger factory and store. |
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| Francoise and Babe Ruth. What a team!! |
The Slugger factory is well worth seeing, especially if you are a baseball fan. They told that a week or so before Mother's day a lot of the baseball teams play with pink bats which they then donate to be sold at an auction which the money going to the cancer society. What a nice thing of them to do.
While there we ate at Culver's which is our favorite frozen custard place to eat at and also went to Costco to stock up on groceries and get gas with our Costco card (saves a few pennies per gallon).
We visited another time Abraham Lincoln's birthplace (very interesting) and will go back there this fall when they are done with the restorations. We found out at Amazon.com that Lincoln couldn't have worked for Amazon if he was still alive as he didn't have a high school diploma and without that you won't be hired.
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| Abe Lincoln's family |
One day we went to Lexington where we will go again on the 5th of October to see the EAA B17 WWII bomber. While there we saw the Post castle and we also went to Harrodsburg where we saw the Shaker village. We found out that there are only 3 Shaker people left in all of America. The reason is that they don't believe in procreation and the industrial revolution put them mostly out of business. They were against conversion to mass production. They were craftsmen and made beautiful furniture and other things out of different woods. They also built those stone walls (one was 25 miles long).
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| Post Castle. |
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| Shaker stone wall. |
We have seen many tobacco fields. What a big leaves they have. They are harvested standing in piles and hung over rods either inside an open barn or just out in the fields. We found out why most barns are painted black in Kentucky. They absorb the heat from the sun to dry the tobacco and black paint is (or was) the cheapest paint you can buy. The tobacco leaves look pretty yukky!
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| Tobacco field. |
Soon after we arrived in Campbellsville we found out that Taylor County is a wet/dry county. What this means is that you can't buy any liquor (no wine, beer or hard liquor) in any store -- this makes a dry county but if a restaurant can serve 50 people or more they can sell you an alcoholic drink with your meal. You can't go in just for a drink. So this makes it the wet part of wet/dry. Funny thing though. We walked to downtown this morning and along the side of the road we saw empty beer bottles and an occasional whiskey bottle. So, you can't take the booze out of the county.
