Beautiful day in Kentucky! The 2019 Springtime in Kentucky Caravan starts today!
We spent the morning rearranging the supplies and tools in the truck, running errands, and buying groceries… I also spent quite a bit of time planning our return trip home in June…
We turned in our emergency forms to our caravan leader, and we were given our “Drivers’ Manual” in exchange. This is a three-ring binder containing all the information we will need for the next three weeks – schedule, driving directions, names and contact information about all the caravaners, financial data, GAMs, and caravan rules. The first thing I normally do when I get the manual is enter all the contact information into my phone – we do a lot of text messaging on the caravan; it is frustrating to get a text message and having to respond, “Who is this?”…
At 3:00 pm we all gathered for our first meeting. We shared brief introductions – there are five couples from California, only one of which we have previously met. Caravaners are from all over the country – Washington, New York, Florida, Texas, and everywhere in between. (No one from Kentucky… However, the leader who was supposed to be here IS from Kentucky, but he has had health issues and needed time to recover, so we have a non-Kentuckian as our leader…)
We were dismissed from our meeting in time for us all to carpool into downtown Bowling Green for dinner at 440 Main, one of Bowling Green’s best restaurants. We arrived early enough to enjoy some adult beverages before dinner.
Soon we were all gathered for dinner. The service was good, especially considering that the servers had to wrangle requests from 50 people at once. And the food was excellent; I had salmon, Lynda had chicken. Dessert was cheesecake with raspberry sauce. I only had a bite or two, but it was excellent, too.
After dinner we returned to the Villa. It was starting to rain as we hurriedly walked to our campsite. Ir continued to rain lightly all night long…
And an enjoyable time was had by all…
Adventures in the Villa 
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