Day 13 Columbia to Lexington, Kentucky

It was a rather easy 7 hour 450 mile drive through St. Louis and Louisville to Lexington, Kentucky. For a Friday the traffic wasn't bad at all. The last 15 miles were through horse country and their immaculate farms. Neither of us had been to Lexington and we were quite surprised to see how nice of a town it was. We got a room at the Hilton Lexington Hotel on the 13th floor, looked out the window, and immediately decided to stay another night. 

View from room. Rupp Arena on left

    

 We quickly unpacked and went for a short walk around town and saw a bar called Pies & Pints, and I said "Great an English Pub, let's give it a try". Well, it was a beer and pizza joint. Since we were there we ordered a drink and chatted with Rachel the bartender, who gave us a little insight to the downtown which was greatly appreciated. We continued our walk and by then it was almost 5 o'clock and we hadn't eaten much of anything when we spotted an interesting little place called Harvey's Bar, so we stopped in hoping to get a little something to eat. It was a great little place that only had a charcuterie plate available which we ordered.

Harvey's Charcuterie Plate

    

 We nibbled at it while we talked to Alex the bartender, who's a fascinating 25 year old Nepalese guy who came to the USA by himself when he was 18 and made his way around the country. He has picked Lexington as the place he wants to stay, although he wants to go see everything, everywhere. We left Harvey's, walked back to the room, and that was about it for the evening. Except for my craving for a slice of pizza. I went back out and luckily found Goodfellas Pizzeria around the corner and popped in. Goodfellas is about the size of one's bedroom, and had slices of beautiful looking N.Y. pizza. I got a couple and took them back to the room. A perfect ending to the evening. I don't know what's up for tomorrow? Just checking out Lexington. It's got a lot of history.