Berea, Kentucky

whew!
made it all the way across our first map (over 400 miles in one week!). We are almost out of the mountains. Right now we are staying with Hope, this really cool couch surfer girl in Berea, Kentucky. Today I (Daniela) felt really slow because i kept on thinking about my flat back tire (which wasn't actually that low, but it's a psychological issue that can really slow you down. Jocelyn was really speedy though, so we made it from Boonesville to Berea in several hours. Along the way, we stopped at the Big Hill battlefield site. There was this little historic cabin that we explored. We found out about the civil war flags (there was an official confederate flag, and the flag that everyone thinks was the confederate flag, was actually a battle flag used somewhat generically on the battlefield).

SO Kentucky is a really cool place that everyone should experience. We've biked through trailer park shanty towns, thick mountain forests, expansive farmland, rolling hills, manicured neighborhoods, tiny towns from last century or the one before. This state has a lot to offer. People here are really friendly and engaging. Almost everyone who sees us asks where we are going and where we came from. we've had some pretty interesting conversations with people.


We ate our first meal in a restaurant today. We had a veggie burger and a goat cheese salad (yum). We also ate gourmet ice cream, but Paul, the guy who sold it to us was not the most friendly of chaps. perhaps we thought that only because we are accustomed to the mountain people who are super friendly and outgoing, and now that we are in a sizable city, where people are indifferent, we don't get the same attention.


Anyways, not sure what we are doing tomorrow. Possibly a hike. Maybe we'll just hit the road. Maybe we'll hang around in Berea (but it's kind of touristy).


CHEERS!

Daniela