Kentucky: The Cheap Fireworks State

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Originally published at Route 96. You can comment here or there.

At klick 868 we entered Kentucky, and were almost instantly rewarded with the trip’s first non-ironic usage of “y’all,” painted in giant letters on a watertower, no less. Surely a portent of fine things to come…

You-Had-To-Be-There Moment #17

We’ve been listening to a lot of 70s funk and proto-funk in the car: Parliament, Sly and the Family Stone, Ike Turner. Today, Pete rechristened James Brown’s extra-sweaty groove “(The Big) Payback” as “(The Vic) Tayback. Once I regained control of the steering wheel I swore I’d never listen to the Godfather of Soul–or watch Alice–the same way again.