Day 46 - Lexington, Kentucky

Another wet start to the day today, but it brightened up later. Headed back to US-60W (the Midland Trail), and had a quick look at the longest arch bridge in the world, over the New River Gorge. The clouds were boiling out of the ravine, making it difficult to take a good picture, but I tried!

Most of the rest of the day was spent driving up and down the ridges of the mountains, through endless forest; oh, if only it had been sunny, it would have been absolutely spectacular! As it was, there was a kind of pleasant melancholy driving through the dripping trees, with their flaming colours dampened by the steel-grey skies.

By the time I crossed the Ohio River into Kentucky (my 46th state! Only missing Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii and North Dakota now), the weather was beginning to perk up. Us-60 goes through many pretty and historic small towns, and the landscape was beginning to smoothe out - fewer trees, more meadows and pasture, and of course Kentucky's famous horses!