dual personalities

This is dual personality #2 with a late weekend post. I started an epic road trip last Wednesday that has taken me  through a wild windstorm, snow, and rain to a conference in Louisville, Kentucky, and thence to son #3’s apartment in Crawfordsville, Indiana. In a few days I’ll drive on to visit my brother in Michigan and then head on home again. That’s a lot of driving for an old lady like me to do all on her own, but so far so good.

I’d never been to Louisville before. I liked it a lot. The highlight of the visit was a tour of historic Locust Grove, a Georgian house built in about 1792.

Here’s the back view.

The inside of this gem is filled with lovingly restored rooms and beautiful period furniture like this gorgeous grandfather clock.

This is the dining room,

and here are a couple of the bedrooms.

It was the nicest house I’ve seen in a long time and I highly recommend a visit.

I would also add that Louisville has several large antique malls that actually sell nice furniture — much of it is vintage rather than antique, but I found a surprising amount of fine reproduction furniture. I bought a sweet mahogany bachelor’s chest here that I’ll post about once I get home.

It was great to be back in the Midwest, where people are friendly and there are wide open spaces. Much as I like mountains, I miss my plains. However, I do wish that the highway drivers were less crazy. I am not slow on the highway, but when the speed limit is 55, I try to go about 63. Everyone else went about 75, and when the speed limit was 70, they all went at least 80. That’s too fast for me. Maybe I am getting old!

Stay tuned for more tales of my adventures. Next time, I’ll tell you about Hoosier life!