{"id":1024,"date":"2017-09-29T21:59:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T02:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abuffalobus.kleinmartin.com\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2017-12-15T20:20:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T01:20:23","slug":"our-eclipse-trip-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abuffalobus.kleinmartin.com\/?p=1024","title":{"rendered":"Our Eclipse Trip (Part 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Continued from Part 2<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

Friday morning found us off to Metropolis via Louisville.\u00a0 After a nice breakfast with our friends, we set out on an overcast day, finding our way to OH 562 to get us to\u00a0 I-75, as I-71 was closed before the bridge to Kentucky.\u00a0 Not surprisingly, the traffic was a crawl until we got over the bridge and into Kentucky.<\/p>\n

It would have picked up more for us, had it not been for the hill. Called the ‘Cut-in-the Hill<\/a>‘, it climbs about 380 feet over 4 miles, and a calculation over that distance gives it a 2% grade, though the steepest part reaches a about a 3% grade.\u00a0 And as we were nowhere near up to speed when we hit it, we crawled up at 40 mph, but we weren’t alone, as there were several tractor-trailers in the same situation.<\/p>\n

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But on the other hand, there was a huge duck atop a building (Cornerstone at Norwood along I-71, for the 23rd Annual Rubber Duck Regatta<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But after that, the drive was pretty nice.\u00a0 After the rain, the day was a little cooler than the first day, and the engine temperatures didn’t need as much attention, even with the hills and high speeds.\u00a0 It did still take some attention, as there seemed to be more ‘discourteous’ drivers (not leaving space, weaving in\/out of lanes, speeding in excess, cutting nearly sideways across several lanes of traffic to exit suddenly) here than there were in Ohio, and THAT was more than I’m used to dealing with on the road in New York.<\/p>\n

But by the time we got to Louisville, though, I was used to it and was being a bit more careful than usual.\u00a0 Before we were really deep into the city, we had to pull off because the Embroiderer’s Guild of America<\/a> (EGA) is headquartered in the Butchertown<\/a> neighborhood.\u00a0 As my wife is a member of the EGA, and they have a small collection of high quality needlework, we needed to stop.<\/p>\n

The Water Tower & Pumpworks around 1860.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the name suggests, Butchertown was originally full of stockyards, and near where the Beargrass Creek was rerouted to, making it a great place to dump all the unwanted trimmings and such so they would float away to the nearby Ohio River.\u00a0 So it was a great drive along River Road (right along the river) from the Louisville Water Tower Park<\/a> to what seemed an overly industrial area for embroiderers.<\/p>\n

But the EGA Headquarters is in a readapted historic leather work and cotton sash factory and warehouse (The Pointe<\/a>), so that explained it.\u00a0 However, the kind of residences that would have been for workers in such a mid-to-late 1800’s area were small and densely packed, and many didn’t have off-street parking to speak of.\u00a0 Meaning that there wasn’t anywhere for us to park the bus! There were, however, a number of businesses around with large parking lots, so my wife went off to see if any of them would give us permission to park, while I waited in the bus to be technically ‘standing’ in a no-parking area.<\/p>\n

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The bus in the Butchertown Pizza Hall parking lot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After making her way from business to business around the block, she came back to direct me to the parking area of the Butchertown Pizza Hall<\/a>, where she spoke with one of the owners, and where, as we drove up, employees were moving cars from the back of the lot to give us space to park!\u00a0 My wife had said that we would definitely buy something there, the owner had said that we didn’t need to, but we were determined to have lunch there after we’d gone to the EGA Headquarters.<\/p>\n

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A closeup of one of several wall-length hangings at the EGA Headquarters.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Being only a block and a half from the headquarters, it took little time to walk over there and make our way to the back of the building to see what there was. The re-purposed building was high-ceilinged, bright, and airy with terrific heavy wood floors.\u00a0 The EGA offices were likewise bright and airy, and the displays of needlework were well-displayed over the walls of the small gallery.<\/p>\n

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The EGA dollhouse, full of miniature embroidery!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We spent a half-hour or so looking over the stitching, the needlework in the display dollhouse, and chatting with the staff members there, especially as one was about to be heading off to Tennessee to watch the eclipse!<\/p>\n

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And more modern needleart …<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After that, we headed back to have some pizza for lunch.<\/p>\n

We expected the Butchertown Pizza Hall<\/a> to have pizza, but they also had wings, so we opted to not get individual lunch specials, but get a pizza with slices of home-made meatballs and mozzarella, and an order of bourbon-honey wings (we were in Kentucky so it made more sense than hot wings).<\/p>\n

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Our Butchertown Pizza Hall pizza!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The pizza was a full 18″ pizza with a fairly thin crust you could fold to eat.\u00a0 The sauce and meatballs were really nicely spiced\/herbed and the pizza as a whole was really filling!\u00a0 Even with our growing boy, we barely got through half of it.<\/p>\n

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And some bourbon-honey wings!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The wings were just awesome.\u00a0 And coming from Buffalo, I guess you could say that we’re sort of ‘wing snobs’.\u00a0 While Buffalo is known as the ‘birth place of chicken wings’, even in Buffalo, people know where the best wings in the city are and what makes a good wing.\u00a0 The Butchertown Pizza Hall wings had the hallmarks of great wings, being completely cooked through, still tender and juicy, with crispy skin.\u00a0 The sauce was really well put together, being just a bit sweet and buttery, with a well-rounded bourbon flavor that made them way too easy to eat.<\/p>\n

While we finished the wings, we had to get the rest of the pizza to go, and left feeling very satisfied and happy that we’d found the place. It was well worth the stop.<\/p>\n

Then we headed off to the Bulleit Distillery, originally the\u00a0Stitzel-Weller\u00a0Distillery, which was only 20 minutes away.<\/p>\n

(Continued in Part 4<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

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