Day #12 & #13 - Tornados. Thunderstorms. And The Green Lantern.

Sorry for not posting yesterday, we fell asleep while typing out the blog. This one is for both days. Day #12. We woke up on our usually time to be alerted by the weather forecast. It was supposed to rain that whole day. We decided to ride a mile down the road to a Walmart to wait out the storm. Once we made it to Walmart it started pouring down rain so we sat and ate breakfast at Subway listening to the sound of water dropping. It wasn't until 10 o'clock when it slowed and we decided to go ahead bike 50 miles in the rain to a nearby town, Bardstown. It only rained on us for the first 10 miles and then the skies cleared. By 3 o'clock that evening we rode into Bardstown, soaking wet. We found a nice motel and went to see the Green Lantern in 3D, in celebration of Mr. G's 22nd birthday of course! It was a pretty good movie. We liked it. On the way back to the motel we stopped at Walmart again, this time to pick up brakes for my bike. Over the last fee days my brakes wore down to where they were almost useless. After getting back to the motel we attempted to write a blog post but we were distracted by The Lord of the Rings and eventually fell asleep. Day #13. We slept in this morning because it rained all night. I woke up to Mr. G watching the weather channel and it was reporting that a line of thunderstorms and tornados were coming through from the west. That was a little discouraging to wake up to. We could hear the thunder for several hours and the heavy part of the storm hit around 9 o'clock, lasting 30 minutes with very strong winds. Check out of the motel was at 11, so around 10:30, even though it was still raining, we packed up our stuff, headed out and found a nearby baptist church to attend. The people were very friendly and we enjoyed the service. We left the church at 12:30 and it had stopped raining. We ate a quick lunch at McDonalds and were on the road by 1. Even though the rain had stopped there were very strong winds against us and several times we were almost blown off the road. Even going down hill we could feel the wind pushing us back up. We saw signs of the storms by flooded fields and down branches all around, some in the road. The rivers were high, very muddy and full of debris. After biking 37 miles against the wind, we decided to stop in the city, Hodgenville. We are in Lincoln country. Yesterday we biked by Lincoln's Boyhood Home State Park, today we are near his birthplace.


The next campgrounds were 40 miles away and we didn't feel like we could make it before dark. The place we are camping at is a county park behind a middle school.





Our plan is to get up early and try to make up some time tomorrow by traveling 80 or 90 miles. We are hoping it doesn't rain again. We continue to appreciate the comments and prayers from home, it makes us feel more in touch. Sorry we never have time to reply to them but please keep them coming :).




[This picture is for Mr. Fusaro]

Stephen Rosenberger.
Mr. G.

Location:Lincoln Dr,Hodgenville,United States