Deam Lake, Indiana and the Louisville Slugger Bat Factory

Here’s our campsite on Deam Lake, setting up and getting some dinner ready.

Today we headed to the Louisville Slugger Bat Factory. They don’t let you take pictures inside, so you’ll have to take it from us that it was great!

Here’s Jordyn holding Rod Carew’s bat.

Here’s Robbie holding Mickey Mantle’s bat.

The glove was carved out of a piece of Kentucky Limestone, it weights 34,000 lbs.

Here is Babe Ruth’s bat

Broke down in Evansville Indiana

We bent some leaf springs on the highway from Deam Lake. We located an RV repair shop that could get some replacements.

As you see here they are a little straight.

The new ones have a higher weight rating so hopefully we’ll have no more problems.

Barthell Coal Camp, Whitley City Kentucky

The Barthell Coal Camp was owned by the Stearns Coal & Lumber Company.
These buildings housed the barber, doctor, bath house and company store.

This is the entrance to the mine.

Vein of coal

Mushroom

The Exit....

This map shows how big this mine was. The circles are 60x30 foot pillars the miners leave to support the ceiling. The mine was over 300ft deep and 12 miles of tunnels. You can see in this map that they dug under the Paunch Creek.

Cumberland Falls, Kentucky

It’s been raining for the last couple days and the river is 17 feet above normal. With no end of the rain in site, we decided to go to the falls today. This is one of only 2 places that you can see a moon bow. We tried to get some pictures of it but they didn’t come out.

We saw this sign and KNEW we had to go down to the lower falls.

Lovers leap…….

Who is the most famous person from Corbin Kentucky?

Colonel Harland Sanders, of course! We made our way to the birth place of Kentucky Fried Chicken today.

Here is a replica of the original restaurant, which we were able to have lunch at!

This is a model of the original restaurant, motel and service station.

I like these prices!

The kitchen – Col Sanders had all the walls and floors painted white, and had window opening inside the restaurant so customers could see how clean the kitchen was.

He also had a model motel room so the woman of a family could inspect and decide if their family would stay at his motel.