Bowling Green, KY

Friday, July 6, 2018

We woke up at 7 AM so we could say our goodbyes to Susan and Skip. All of us had such an enjoyable time together it really couldn’t have been any nicer. After they left we packed ourselves up and headed for the last stop on our historic trip, Bowling Green, KY. It was a little frustrating driving through Nashville and not stopping, but we would have had to add another day or two to our trip and it was time we got home. So, we continued on to Bowling Green and planned to visit Mammoth Cave the next day.

Through most of our trip to Bowling Green we encountered the only rain that we’ve had on this whole adventure.  It was several hours of pouring rain. We arrived early enough in Bowling Green, which had dry weather, that we had time to visit the National Corvette Museum. The plant that manufactures the Corvette is in Bowling Green which explains why the museum is located there. The Museum featured more than 70 Corvettes including an original 1953 model and numerous concept cars.  They were beautiful to look at in all of their intense shiny colors.  The history, design and manufacturing process of the Corvette was covered in an understandable and interesting fashion.

Part of the museum includes a display area that is called The Skydome.  On February 12, 2014 a 30-foot sinkhole (and a cave) opened up inside the Skydome swallowing 8 rare cars.  Only three of them could be rebuilt into mint condition, the rest could not be salvaged.  All of the cars are back on display in the Skydome, including the cars destroyed that day.   There are caves and sinkholes all over this part of the country, so it isn’t too surprising to me that this kind of incident took place here.

One part of this trip is that we always are searching for places to eat that are local and definitely not fast-food.  We’ve been pretty lucky finding places on Yelp, Google Maps, or TripAdvisor.  Tonight was no different.  We drove into “historic” Bowling Green just to check it out and ended up really enjoying a crab cake and shrimp sandwich which had some delicious sauce on it at a restaurant called Micki’s.  We also sampled a beer made by a local brewery called White Squirrel.

Tomorrow we visit Mammoth Cave National Park.