Quilt Day!

Today, we drove from Memphis to Paducah, Kentucky. We were told it would be like Saskatchewan with more trees. And, it was. We took a scenic highway through a lot of Tennessee and saw quite a few small towns, speed traps and about 157 churches. The most exciting thing was this diner being moved. I don't know where it was going but it looks interesting and I bet it will be excellent when it gets cleaned up a bit. 

It was grey and rainy when we got to Paducah. We'd also gone from 34 degrees yesterday afternoon to 18 during the drive. My shorts and golf shirt weren't working out very well. At least it felt like home! I don't have any photos from my part of the afternoon because I went on a wine search and found a giant liquor store with a drive through. I was quite impressed with that but didn't want to look like a complete tourista by taking pictures. Then I got an oil change. Not overly exciting.

Marilyn, on the other hand, was quite excited by her trip to the National Quilt Museum. From what I understand, it has a lot of quilts hanging on the walls. They are really intricate quilts and many have won awards. Unfortunately, they didn't allow pictures in the museum so we only have outside shots.

While I was getting the oil change, Marilyn was in a massive quilting material store. 

Marilyn was also in a couple of other stores and this was the result of her shopping.

I picked Marilyn up after the oil change and we walked around downtown Paducah. I'm not sure if it was because it was kind of cool and rainy or because summer was over, but there were very few people to be found. Once again, it reminded me of a scene from The Walking Dead. Many of the stores were closed by 5:00 and most restaurants were sparsely populated at best. 

 

We ended up down by the Ohio River and there was a whole wall of murals along the shore depicting the history of Paducah. 

There was also a cool locomotive that had a historical connection to the town. I find it fascinating to look closely at the heavy duty construction of old machines. 

We are off to Cincinnati tomorrow on what should be the second last day of this road trip. Our hotel is on the outskirts of the city but we plan on exploring some of the downtown and waterfront during the day.