Today started out beautiful again, cool AM temps, sunny sky's, top down
weather as best as it could be. We back tracked from Winchester thru horse
country again to Mt. Sterling, Ky. This area is absolutely indescribable. I
guess anybody who is anybody in the horse business has property in this "zone"
because once you leave it you see no more farms of that caliber. You would
think they would be scattered around in the countryside but no, when it ends,
it ends. Agriculture takes over as well as cattle ranches. We found Hwy 460
and followed it through Eastern Ky. We left horse country, went thru
agricultural country, and as the hills turned into mountains we entered coal
country. From one type of beauty to another. Hwy 460 is called "The Country
Music Highway" passing the home places of artists like Loretta Lynn and Dwight
Yoakam. 18 wheelers, pickup trucks, and big American iron rule the roads. We
kept up just fine on those mountain grades however. My arms got a good work
out turning rt., then lft., then rt., then lft., well you get the idea. As it
got closer to noon the temps shot up and approached 100 deg. with high
humidity. It was just bearable while moving at 50 MPH but when in town (and
there are lots of small towns) it became very intolerable. Around 1:30 we
stopped in Salyersville, Ky for lunch. It was blisterin HOT!! We decided it
was time for the top to go up. While in the Court House parking lot we asked
a man where to eat in town. He said go to the "Kozy Corner" right across the
street, "I promise you it's good" he said. We didn't care as long as it had AC
but it had both good food and AC. The closer we get to home the more the
people start sounding like us. We got back out and continued on thru Ky, into
Grundy, Va. The Appalachian Mountains are beautiful, what can I say. We came
over to the eastern side down 460 to Claypool Hill, got on Hwy 19 to Abingdon,
Va. (the ancestral home of Martha Washington) where we are staying the night.
The temps cooled down as the sun set casting shadows on the eastern slopes-it
was nice again. We had another great Healey day.
Take care,
George & Sherry Haywood
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