Pining for the Fjords

  Posing with Bardstown's City Hall A few weeks ago, Chris happened to mention that we needed to get back to Bardstown, Kentucky, sometime soon; Bardstown is considered the "Bourbon Capital of the World," due to its high concentration of local distilleries, and while we'd passed through for lunch a few months back after visiting Maker's Mark , we hadn't really spent much time in the area.  We booked ourselves a campsite in a RV park just outside of downtown and used the Juneteenth holiday to take a long weekend for wandering around and tasting some brown spirits! We headed out after work on Wednesday, taking around two hours to cover the 100 miles from Bardstown to home, and arriving at White Acres Campground , our home base for the next few days, just before an impressive rainstorm blew in (we did our setup in record time, and we were safely inside when it hit).   One of my favorite parts of campsite check in - reading the rules! Not the best picture, but the...

Did you read Part 1 ? When last we blogged, we were in Munster, Indiana at 3 Floyds Brewing for their annual Dark Lord Day celebration. Atop a dune, looking over Lake Michigan with downtown Chicago in the background After exiting the festival, we figured pizza sounded good, so we found our way to Tomato Bar Pizza Bakery , where we enjoyed a Greek salad topped with Jerk chicken and a small Goat Remix pie (lots of veg and goat cheese) - everything was delicious!  Crossing the parking lot, we made a quick run to Whole Foods for an olive oil refill and macaroons (what?  We were almost out of olive oil at home, and the self-serve macaroon cooler is always a Whole Foods highlight), and then it was back into the car toward our next destination.   When I plan trips and search for activities in the area we'll be visiting, I try to have a few different options for attractions, museums, parks, and the like, so we can modify our plans as needed, depending on how we're feeling, ...