It was bright (dark) and early this morning when we hit the road for our trip to the South. I wanted to be on the road at 6:00AM and to the girls credit they were ready to go and we waited for the clock to turn from 5:59 as we pulled out of our driveway. It took a few tries of Tetris to get everything packed. Still room for some extra shopping trips.

We have a couple of cameras on the go, one is in the back with the girls.  They are still smiles after about 4 hours in the car. As you can see Claudia snuck Chloe along for the ride.

Gillian took a picture of the Toledo sign on the bridge, she missed it on our side of the highway, so she caught it on the other side.

Claudia took this one in Findlay, Ohio.

Shortly after that photo was taken of them above, there was a bit of squabbling amongst the troops, so after a stop at the Ohio Visitor Centre they switched it up.

A bunch of these funny looking cars passed us close to Cincinnati, there were about six of them, I think they were doing some sort of testing.

A picture of a big rubber ducky on top of this building near Cincinnati. The duck is to advertise the largest rubber duck race in the United States. It is the annual Freestore Foodbank Rubber Duck Regatta in Cincinnati, Ohio. First run in 1994, the Rubber Duck Regatta now features over 100,000 ducks raced to raise money for the organization

The traffic was pretty good today, there were a few spots with construction and slow downs, but for the most part it was a good drive.

Heading into Kentucky.

We couldn’t remember which order the girls were sitting in the last time we took this picture.

We were right. Here they are on August 15, 2008, 3 years and a day ago.

 We crossed the border in Detroit at 9:15 AM, crossed the Ohio/Kentucky border around 2:00 PM and pulled into our hotel in Corbin, KY around 5:00 PM.

Corbin, Kentucky is the birthplace of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Colonel Harland Sanders owned a restaurant, motel, and gas station. It was here he developed his recipe for KFC and his secret recipe. There is a museum and restaurant where his original cafe stood. We headed there for dinner. Here is Claudia finishing off her mashed potatoes, Gillian said the original recipe tastes better here, I told her it was probably from the extra grease they use.

After his original cafe burned down he re-built it and added a model motel room in the cafe. His thought was that the ladies would be the ones who would give the okay on whether to stay at the motel, so the entrance to the ladies restroom was through the model room.

The national register of Historic Places plaque on the wall. The cafe has been restored to its 1940’s look.

There are display cases throughout the restaurant with KFC memorabilia.

A Colonel Sanders statue in the office.

The kitchen where he developed his fried chicken recipe.

Gillian and Angela in the kitchen.

Lots of Colonel Sanders artifacts, clippings and photos.

Our 12 piece meal with fries, mashed potatoes and gravy was $27.29.

The girls with the Colonel.

Some KFC matches.

The girls with the giant Colonel.

When we were leaving, an older couple were coming out, the lady stopped and told us that she knew Harland Sanders. She said she worked in a drugstore in Corbin when she was younger and he would come in with a new recipe and they would make it up for him.

It was a good start to the trip.