Hold your horses

Thursday we found ourselves surrounded by horses, horses and more horses. The Lexington, KY landscape was lined with the wooden fences of horse farms. Our stay in the horse pasture behind Brookledge had been nice, but we were without fresh water and electric, so we searched the campground directory and found that there was a campground nearby at the Kentucky Horse Park. We drove over to check it out, and once we were satisfied, made reservations for the night and headed back to get the trailer. After setting up and eating lunch we made our way over to the Toyota plant in Georgetown, KY where Mark's childhood friend Billy worked. Billy had informed us of a tour you could take of the plant, but that it was very popular and he could only put our name on the standby list. We were on the list for 2pm but got a little lost finding our way there and missed our chance for the day to see the factory. We did get to see Billy though and watch a 30 minute video of the factory and had our names put on the standby list for the next morning's tour. We made plans to have dinner with Billy and his family and then headed over to Keeneland race track. Keeneland was an enormous, attractive complex which we explored for a little while, making our way upstairs to some of the private boxes for a full view. We headed back to the trailer to get ready for dinner and then met Billy and his two sons at a local Kentucky eatery, Ramseys, where we enjoyed some traditonal Southern cuisine; sweet tea, fried-green tomatoes, chicken-fried pork chops, buffalo fried chicken, and a Kentucky specialty, a hot brown. After an enjoyable dinner we headed back to Kentucky Horse Park so we could be up early for the Toyota tour in the morning.