Vacation 2008

We took a driving vacation this year, going almost 2800 miles. First thing we did was go to Kentucky and joined up with Ben's sister Brenda and her husband Ron. Good people to hang out with.

From Kentucky we went north in to Ohio and Amish country.


We turned west and stopped in Indianapolis, IN. to see the Indy Raceway.

Continuing west we stopped in Paris, Ill to see family.



Pushing westward on to St. Louis, Mo. where we went to the top of the Arch (proving it is a small world, we ran in to a friend from Zebulon, our home town in Georgia) and visited several sites of interest before heading back east.

We took the southern route back stopping at Churchill Downs (home of the Kentucky Derby) and Fort Knox (home of all the gold).

We stopped in Kentucky to see more family.

We went to "The Creation Museum", a very large place that covers Genesis so that kids and adults can understand and enjoy it. Movies, displays, discussions, the true creation. If you can, it is well worth the 8 hours or more it takes to go through it.


We returned Brenda and Ron home.


We headed home by way of Pigeon Forge, TN, Gatlinburg, TN, and over the Smokey Mountains to Cherokee, NC, then back to Georgia. We stopped to see Kris in Athens, GA (he is back at UGA working on a masters degree).
It took us about 12 days and about $500 in gas to make the trip, but it was great.