Retirement Travels

I was busy every single day while we were in Wisconsin checking on my Dad. We arrived on Sunday and surprised him with a visit. I am grateful to the staff of Patriot Place for being proactive in stopping the spread of COVID. I was worried I wouldn't be able to get in to see him.  Monday, Dad and I had an appointment with Social Security to apply for my Mom's death benefit and we had to get paperwork filled out to get her last Social Security payment. Tuesday, Dad had an appointment with an audiologist. Although he has tried hearing aids before I felt he needed to see all the options and find one that would be best for him. He doesn't do well with technology and his fingers don't work well to get the smaller hearing aids in. Wednesday morning he had an appointment to see the Nurse Practitioner to get his ears flushed. Thanks to my sister for finding an open appointment to get this done while I was still there. The audiologist couldn't do impression for a molded heari...

We lost a day due to our coach needing to be fixed but we sure got to do and see a bunch of things in the Bourbon Trail area. We drove through a bunch of different roads in the cities and the countryside and I must say Kentucky has some beautiful countryside. I loved seeing the pristine horse farms, all the double fences and horses grazing inside them. Ernie did not love the narrow roads. Our first day we went to Buffalo Trace. We took the Historic Tour and did a tasting.  We had six different tastings, Vodka (pretty good), Buffalo Trace Bourbon (not bad), Weller Bourbon (not bad), Eagle Rare (I didn't care for it), Bourbon Cream (really good), Freddie's Root Beer (really good), and a bourbon ball (yummy 😋 ). Since I (Sandy) am the writer of the blog this is my opinion and I have never had bourbon before, Ernie however loved them all. If you mix a little Bourbon Cream with Freddie's Root Beer, it tasted like a root beer float. We also took a drive by Kentucky's capital...

May 2nd, we left Fairhope, AL, our good friends Tom and Carol are traveling with us. Our first stop was a Cracker Barrel in Prattville, AL. We had a nice dinner and planned on having breakfast however 3 buses full of kids from Birmingham came in before their State Track. Our next stop was a lovely Harvest Host, South 40, which is  a family-owned farm encompassing 40 sweeping, picturesque acres. They have  hosted wedding shoots, family photo shoots, portrait sessions and have even had several music videos filmed on our property, including country star Miranda Lambert, who utilized South 40 for its amazing array of scenes and settings. The owner also told us about a commercial shoot that included Luke Bryant who was on the property at the time of the shoot.   We celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary while on the property. Ernie is a good sport when I asked him to wear the shirts I made for us. 😂  Tom and Carol treated us to an amazing dinner at South 55, a restauran...