day 17, through KY

Getting into KY was cool, we went through a long tunnel. The signs warning us about this tunnel started nearly 100 miles out with big red signs. Darien got some pics.

We miss TN already, but KY is nice. We got to sample more whippets, it was a bit of an ordeal for all concerned to co ordinate it, the breeder was off at a show. She was soooooo helpful though and got her dog sitter to meet us at her kennel. One of the young whippets grabbed my sample bag and tried to run off with it. Such gleeful whippets :)

KY had all these signs for "The Biggest Loser" show, even the businesses were encouraging contestants. It was bizarre. Laura also manged to explode a huge engorged tick in her face as we were driving, she was removing them off smudge. She had little black tick bits all over, ewwww.

We were to meet a fellow just in IL to pick up rubber crumb. This rubber crumb is for our agility equipment. It is very reasonably priced compared to buying it at home, but shipping is outrageous. So since I was going to be in the area I planned to pick up a couple of bags (where on earth would we tetris 2 50 pound bags of rubber bits?) The rubber place isn't open on the weekend so we need to meet up with him today. But then we had an issue.

Seems my wallet dropped out of my bag in a bathroom. We didn't notice till nearly 2 hours away when we went to get gas! We called the place where we stopped to use the bathrooms and luckily a staff member had found it. We had to back track to go get it. This put us really late. Luckily Sam, the rubber crumb fellow made it work, he found us a campground near him just the other side of TN/IL border that was near him. He would then show up at 8am to do the paperwork and sell us the crumb.

This turned out to be awesome as traffic made it even longer. Even with crossing the time zone in our favour we were running really late. We are driving along at just after 9pm almost out of KY when I look at the GPS. The GPS has little symbols that tell you what your next thing is, a T crossing, a left turn, a roundabout (which we have seen lots of)...

The GPS was showing me a boat. Yes a boat! Laura whips out the map and looking closely it seems the crossings are all ferry crossings. We are a bit perplexed as we have toll roads turned off. The good news is that this seems to be a free ferry, the bad news is it closes in 15 min and is 9 miles away on a twisty turny hilly road.

We make it. My car and trailer are "on a boat" Whoot.

I have no idea why they don't just make a bridge, the Ohio river isn't that big, and we have seen far more bridges over larger things in more out of the way places..

We made it to the camp site, set up and fall into bed.