Happy Fourth of July Everyone!

Day 21 - Louisville, KY to Bedford, IN (4th of July!)

Stats:

77.1 miles
5:25 time

While I was initially kind of bummed out that we had to ride on the fourth, it turned out to be a great day. Joel took some of the group on a "little" (turned into 3 hour) detour so that he could give us a tour of Old Louisville and the downtown area. The first stop we hit was Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby. After being scolded after posing with our bikes on statues of horses (sounded like a good idea at the time) we tried our hand at donation magic. Luckily, there was a really accommodating security guard on that morning and she let all 25 or so of us into the facility and gave us a mini tour. It was the last day of the season too so there were actually jockeies on the course training their horses which was cool to see...Other highlights included a tour of the millionaires club and seeing all the plaques of the past winners. I obviously knew about the Derby before the trip, but I really had no idea how big of a deal it is. It was super cool to see it first hand!



All of us at Churchill Downs!




(Before getting in trouble for "biking" on the statues...well done Robbie, very creative!)

As we were biking out of Louisville, we were stopped by the local news station who proceeded to do an interview with Joel. While we were waiting for him to finish up, ironically, the mayor of Louisville rode by on his road bike and greeted us. We told him what we were doing and he welcomed us to Kentucky which was sweet. Here comes the embarrassing part. So the news crew wanted to film us all biking off over the bridge into Indiana. Well thats all well and good except for the fact that there was a miscommunication paired with a wrong turn somewhere along the way and all 25 ish of us ended up on the interstate while I film crew was expecting us further down the road. (P.S. biking on intestates = very very bad and stressful) We were only on for a second or two and then we were able to smart phone our way out. Woops.



Joel - You're famous!

Shortly thereafter we crossed the state line into Indiana - Woo for crossing state lines!! (No pic because it was on the interstate...wasn't really the time for "state line" group shots...)