Granny's Letters:
A man directed us to a stone pit and we camped there on a pile of crushed stone, pitched the tent and was real comfortable, went on in the morning without any breakfast as we were afraid the men would come to work. The camp was about 3 miles from Georgetown and 9 miles from Lexington, stopped at Lexington quite a while, Frank got a fan belt, Carrie got camp stools, we mailed some cards and came on to ------, bought a tablet and some post cards. Our first bit of sight seeing worth while was at High Bridge Ky. On the river. There is a railroad bridge 311 ft. high over the river. We went down a stairs of nearly 300 steps from the top of the cliff to the river. Frank and Carrie went down to the bottom, Mrs. Burns lacked about a dozen steps and I got about down the last flight. I got so light headed. We were about all in when we got down, there were steps to go up on the bridge but we did not go up. We then drove down to the river and crossed on the ferry, we had to pay 50 cts. and Carries had to pay 75 cts. We stopped there and cooked our dinner, we had a big long pull up the cliff, camped that evening at a school house, it was a very lonesome place, some drunk men came in the evening and about 2 o'clock came back went into the school house stayed about an hour and went on their way. We saw miles and miles of stone fence and such large farm houses one place called Quakertown had nothing but large houses, it looked like a college town. At Harrodsburg they had a college Asbery it was called. We went over roads along the sides of the hills where you could not see to the top or to the bottom. I don't like such places. We saw such a pretty place to camp but it was only noon so we ate our dinner and drove on. One place in the hills we saw a man sitting on the fence he was waving his hands at us, we stopped to see what was wrong and Carries hit us and broke their bumper off. The man was crazy and wanted a ride to town. When we got around the next bend he was there waving his hands again but we did not stop we went on to Hodgenville, Lincolntown it has a big statue of Lincoln and 3 miles out of town is Lincoln farm. We went out and saw the hall and Lincoln's cabin. Frank was in the cabin, I did not go in they had chains around it, I looked in, we registered, it is a lovely place. We would have camped there but we had no bread. We went back to Hodgenville, got bread and meat and went out of town about a mile and camped. It has been awful cold but we slept warm. Carrie went out this morning and killed a rabbit we have it dressed for supper. We made it to Mumsfordville had a bowl of soup and a sandwich at a restaurant, cost us 30cts. Came on to Cave City, decided it was so cold we would not visit the caves but hike for a warmer climate. We are hunting a place to camp, Will put up for the night as soon as we can and try and warm up. We found a school house and they let us in, we had a good coal fire, had our rabbit for supper and say we did warm ourselves good. Carries slept in the school house but we slept in the machine. We were good and warm. We had a time getting away this morning, the machines were so cold, but we had drained the radiators, but after we got started we had good roads. We are now in Bowling Green Ky. The men have gone to get some clothes. There was a girl about 16 yrs. old came to the school house where we were and wanted us to stop and get her when we come back and take her "to you alls house". I was writing and had my back to the street, a man came along and said "where are you headed for? Bill" and I told him. Bowling Green has an oil boom on now, it is quite a large city but not so nice as some I have seen since we left Lexington. Bardstown is about the size of Greenville it is not far from Lexington and Springfield is a real nice place. I did not get to write these places up because I had no paper. We don't see so very much of towns. This place has the first 5&10 ct store I have seen since Lexington, they had a Woolworth store. This is H. A. McElroy Co. I am not going to go in. We have no time to stop at ten cent stores if we want to get to Florida this winter. They have a nice park here with a fountain in the center, it has icicles 2 ft. long hanging from it.