Corvette Museum to Home

Wednesday, March 19 to Thursday, March 20, 2014

After a windy night at Camping World and one more purchase, we had breakfast at the Cracker Barrel Restaurant just around the corner and then stopped at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY. We're not really car enthusiasts but this interested us. What a fantastic job they did exhibiting the history of the Corvette car. First a movie and then a self guided tour. The 60 and 70 models had a special appeal to us. Must be the age thing. Spent a fair bit of time to try to ingest it all but don't have too much technical stuff to post. The photos will have to do. They had a heart-breaking event take place, as recently as February 12, 2014. At 5:30 a.m. an alarm sounded and they found out that a large sinkhole in one of the main display areas opened up and destroyed at least 8 cars. Some have not yet been retrieved. Very sad. Afterwards, a four-hour drive brought us to the Kentucky Horse Park Campground in Lexington, KY. This was our first stop on our way down and will be the last before arriving home. Saw more Ontario plates there. Guess the march home for snowbirds is on. Treated ourselves to a great supper at the rustic Red State BBQ just down the road. Another quiet night (they all were) and then on the road the next morning for the long drive home. It was I-75 all the way to Detroit. The weather was sunny and only one construction delay on the highway. Recognized and talked to two people I knew from Cambridge at one of the rest stops. One left Florida and the other from the west side of US. Very quick border crossing and then the first real snow sighting as we approached London. Yuk! Two coffees for the road to stay alert till reaching home, which was at 8:30 p.m. It was a full day, with almost a 12-hour drive behind us. Very thankful for the safety along the way. What a fantastic trip!!!
Will post a summery with some technical info and what worked and what didn't, as soon as we get things back to normal on the homefront.

Wednesday, March 19

In Bowling Green, Kentucky

The start of the Corvette

This 1974 Corvette belonged to the late singer Roy Orbison.

What a super way to display the cars.

It was great to be able to relate to some of the stops on Route 66, since we drove part of it.

Some of the racing teams that drove the Corvettes

Impressive engines. Hard to believe the get them under the hood.

A couple of the concept cars

This photo of the car is made up of thousands of smaller photos

This was a live view of the area in the museum where the sinkhole sucked in about eight cars.

A heart breaking sight.

They are still trying to retrieve some cars.

This is especially sad, since it was the 1-millionth car produced, the same colour scheme as the first one produced in 1953.

We wish

Didn't buy the photos.

2014 

Prospective buyers

2014

We placed our order for the new 2014!

Almost the same spot we had on our first night starting our trip.

Trying for a last minute update to journal and blog. What a mess, honest it doesn't always look like this.

Had some great ribs and pulled pork here.

Thursday, March 20

A little caffeine fix on the 401 back in Canada to keep us alert for the rest of the trip home.