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I love to travel.

Road Trippin’ IVc: Kentucky Bourbon Trail

Posted on June 5, 2016 by kcbernick

Kentucky Bourbon Trail Our first stop on the Bourbon Trail was the Jim Beam Distillery located near Clermont, for a tour and samplings. Jim Beam is the largest distiller of bourbon in the world, accounting for 95% of total production, … Continue reading →

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Road Trippin’ IVb

Posted on June 4, 2016 by kcbernick

The main purpose of this trip was to visit the Kentucky Bourbon Trail. Six different distilleries were featured in January, 2012: Old Turkey, Four Roses, Jim Beam, Woodford Reserve, Maker’s Mark and Heaven Hill, all located along the Bluegrass Parkway … Continue reading →

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Road Trippin’ IVa

Posted on June 3, 2016 by kcbernick

Almost ten years after the cross country road trip with son Sean, Mark and I took two road trips to warmer climates. In January, we drove to Florida and back, and in February, we drove to Arizona and back. On … Continue reading →

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Road Trippin’ III

Posted on June 1, 2016 by kcbernick

Working my way through the best books about cross country travel, I’ve started one about a trip from New York to Alabama: The Cruise of the Rolling Junk by F. Scott Fitzgerald. At first, I thought Junk referred to the … Continue reading →

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Road Trippin’ IId

Posted on June 1, 2016 by kcbernick

Wyoming to home. It would be wrong to drive through Wyoming without stopping at Devil’s Tower. I had visions of Richard Dreyfuss molding a replica of the tower out of his mashed potatoes. I didn’t realize this at the time, … Continue reading →

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Road Trippin’ IIc: Yellowstone

Posted on May 29, 2016 by kcbernick

Don’t enter Yellowstone in late October without tire chains. The signs were very clear about this, but the sky was very clear as well. After visiting Cicely, we drove through northern Idaho which is stunning with its mountains and forests. … Continue reading →

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Road Trippin’ IIb: Roslyn, Washington

Posted on May 28, 2016 by kcbernick

Northern Exposure, Roslyn, Washington Sean and I are both fans of the television show, Northern Exposure, which aired from 1990 – 1995. This was one of the few shows that I caught from the very beginning, since even the ads … Continue reading →

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Road Trippin’ IIa

Posted on May 27, 2016 by kcbernick

Seattle, October 2002 I flew out to Seattle to help my son, Sean, move back to Minnesota. My parents drove me to the airport very early in the morning, but not early enough to miss bumper-to-bumper traffic in the Twin … Continue reading →

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Road Trippin’ I

Posted on May 25, 2016 by kcbernick

In an earlier post, I referenced an article about road trips and literature. Inspired by that article myself, I decided to start reading some of the books on the list that I haven’t read before. My first is Cross Country: … Continue reading →

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Road Trips and Literature

Posted on May 5, 2016 by kcbernick

Two of my favorite things. While this isn’t about my travels, it is inspiring some future trips as well as some future reading. Check out The Obsessively Detailed Map of American Literature’s Most Epic Road Trips. Richard Kreitner wrote this … Continue reading →

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