July Journey: Day 1
BOWLING GREEN KY -- Our final vacation of the year started off a somewhat serendipitous note: because of field conditions, Bowling Green's game last night was postponed and rescheduled for a doubleheader starting at 5:00 this evening. This didn't affect our plans; considering we would be crossing into the Central time zone, our planned ETA was 4:00 anyway.
We decided to take the southern route out of Charleston, which got us to the town of Hazard for lunch. While the meal itself wasn't bad, the atmosphere at the Circle T was -- first because, apparently, Perry County doesn't have a indoor smoke-free ordinance, but more importantly, because of a deceased cockroach ("bereft of life") in the men's restroom.
Bowling Green is the home of the Western Kentucky University Hilltoppers, most famous for the reddish blob -- a mound of dirt? a handkerchief? -- of a mascot often featured in SportsCenter promotions. More importantly to Chad, WKU is joining Marshall's league a year from now, and what better way to mark his territory than to make a preemptive visit?
The "Hot Rods", so named because of the National Corvette Museum and assembly plant on the outskirts of town, split their doubleheader with the Dayton Dragons, winning 2-1 and losing 7-5 in the second.
We decided to take the southern route out of Charleston, which got us to the town of Hazard for lunch. While the meal itself wasn't bad, the atmosphere at the Circle T was -- first because, apparently, Perry County doesn't have a indoor smoke-free ordinance, but more importantly, because of a deceased cockroach ("bereft of life") in the men's restroom.
Bowling Green is the home of the Western Kentucky University Hilltoppers, most famous for the reddish blob -- a mound of dirt? a handkerchief? -- of a mascot often featured in SportsCenter promotions. More importantly to Chad, WKU is joining Marshall's league a year from now, and what better way to mark his territory than to make a preemptive visit?
The "Hot Rods", so named because of the National Corvette Museum and assembly plant on the outskirts of town, split their doubleheader with the Dayton Dragons, winning 2-1 and losing 7-5 in the second.