Our first stop was the Thomas Edison Museum in downtown Louisville. Edison rented a room in this house for a short time while he worked as a telegrapher. The house was saved from the wrecker’s ball some years ago and is restored to the period and condition that represents the time Edison lived there. Our tour guide had great stories of young Tom’s life. Whether they are true or not doesn’t matter, they were entertaining. The collection of items displayed included several phonographs, Dictaphones, movie projectors, and an assortment of old light bulbs. This is well worth the $5 admission price.
Next stop, the Louisville Slugger factory and museum. This tour takes you thru the small factory in downtown Louisville that manufactures all professional and commercial Louisville Slugger baseball bats. There are only 5 steps to convert something that looks like an oversized dowel into a finished bat. It was interesting to see a small shop continuing to produce a product here in America. A small bat was given to each person on the tour.
We drove across the Ohio River into Indiana for lunch at the Kingfish restaurant in Jefferson. This restaurant sits on the shore of the Ohio River and the view across to Louisville is nice. Normally I only talk about outstanding restaurants but this restaurant was so outstandingly BAD I have to say something. The crab cakes were without texture and very bland. The clam chowder was served cold and when heated tasted like something directly out of a can… maybe not even that good. The gumbo was watery and without flavor. It’s amazing that a restaurant that serves food like this can stay in business.
We stopped at a Dairy Queen for Blizzards to wash down the residual taste of our lunch. I had an excellent Hawaiian Blizzard made with Banana, Pineapple, and toasted coconut. Mary had her normal Blueberry blizzard.
We returned to the KOA around 4pm. Tomorrow being Sunday, we’ll have a down day, read the newspaper, and prepare for the coming week. Monday is a tour of Churchill Downs. Tuesday, we are going to see what kind of trouble we can get into around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. I wonder how fast of a lap I can turn in our Roadtrek?
