A weekend in Louisville, KY

The Group!
L to R
Kelly, Me, Natalie, Aur (our host), Anne Caroline (the disciple), Remy, and Lucy

Early last week from the road we heard about "Forecastle," a huge three day music, arts, & activism festival taking place in Louisville which is where we'd be this past weekend. Upon hearing about it Lucy decided to email and see what we could do about getting in to the festival and sure enough we were able to get in free, and VIP.

Friday we rolled into town early after a short 20 something mile day that involved a rural 13 mile long subdivision of overdone houses and 4 or 5 miles on interstate where we had to take our own lane just past the morning rush hour. Whizzing by were tractor trailers, cars, and motorcycles but luckily we crossed into Louisville then appeared bike lanes and many bikers everywhere we looked!

We ate a picnic soon after arriving in downtown Louisville outside the festival gates followed by a quick 9 mile ride to our hosts home! Mark Thomson & Family provided us with a wonderful basement & futon as well as two meals that were great!

Back to Forecastle, it was an amazing festival! Many festivals i've been to have organic and clean energy booths but they usually do not amount to much.. mainly peta and other organizations that are usually just trying to make a scene, or so it seems. This festival was much more laid back with booths from all over the midwest promoting a sustainable way of living, bicycling and walking as the best mode of transportation, and many other admirable things and none of them were in your face about it. I thought that was very cool.

All in all, it was a great weekend!

I have been on the road for 14 days and logged a few hundred miles (not sure how much). 2 weeks until Washington, D.C. followed by two more weeks until Pittsburgh, PA.