And, We're Off!!!!  Day one of the Bluegrass 1000 takes us to the northeast Kentucky from our starting point in Louisville.  We started with a welcome breakfast at Bill Collins Ford/Lincoln, our sponsor.  See the first post of this blog for background on why they do this each year.




Enter here for a scrumptious breakfast and wonderful welcome.

Eggs, hash browns, sausage, orange juice... these car guys eat well.

Hey, I am OFFICIAL!!!

The beginning of a day of two lane highways and superb views, despite the light rain.

Our fist stop was Sparta, Kentucky, home of the Kentucky Speedway.  If you enjoy NASCAR you've probably seen this place on TV. 

The rain let up so they let us drive our cars to the winners circle for photos.

Then they let us drive on the track!!

Turn 4.... wheeeeeeee!

Dick's Porsche and Marc's lovely Jag XK...Dick wins!

Meet Eva and Bridget.  These lovely lasses are Paramedics assigned to the tour, just in case anyone is injured.  Nice to have them with us. 

Hummm, line up a Morgan with a Ford Mustang and a Porsche and the British car looks pretty small.

Doug and Shannon brought this nice Trans-Am with a ram air induction system.   The car sounds really cool.

We ended the day with a nice dinner at a bistro in Louisville, just a couple of miles from our hotel.  We drove about 175 miles today plus the miles on the track.  The rain stopped long enough for us to enjoy the race track and lunch at a winery, then came back with strong rains the rest of the afternoon.  Rush hour traffic in Louisville was a struggle for us who were not familiar with the territory. 

A good day in all.

 Our first day for the Bluegrass 1000 adventure is a 325 mile jaunt down Intersate 71 to Louisville, KY.  Not a fun drive in a sports car, but necessary.   We left at 10:30am and with a lunch stop and a couple of additional pit stops we arrived at about 5 with road sounds buzzing in our ears.

 

 

 

Off we go... from northern Ohio to Louisville, KY.  My 2005 Morgan Roadster and Dick's 1996 aircooled Porsche

 

 



Upon arrival who do we see but Art and Patsy from Texas, fellow Morgan enthusiasts who were with us on the Great Lakes Pub Crawl earlier this summer.  Here they are sealing up their newest aquisition, a 1990 Chrysler's TC Maserati, a quite rare car he found along side the road one day this summer. 

 

 

Tomorrow morning we gather at Bill Collin's Ford in Louisville for a "kick-off" breakfast and start the Bluegrass 1000.  The week looks like it will be filled with good fun and lots of interesting sights.  

 

 

Morganing in Kentucky for the Bluegrass 1000

Once again our little Morgan is on the road to new adventures.... this time with new faces and different cars.  Our friends, Dick and Judy are coming along in their air cooled Porsche 911 as we venture to Louisville, Kentucky to meet up with other folks with classic and special cars.  The Bluegrass 1000 is a charity event to raise money for the Bill Collins Parkinson's Center at Frazier Rehab Institute located at the Jewish Hospital/St. Mary's Medical Center in downtown Louisville, Ky.

The Road Trip is held over 5 days and will cover approximately 1000 kilometers within the state of Kentucky.  We travel only on paved back roads, no interstates (except to get there and back home again) and no night driving.  Our first night will be in Louisville, then we move to Bowling Green to stage day trips across the state.  The route path is unknown to us at the moment, but I am assured it will be interesting.  And, the weather looks pretty good as far as forcasts are predicting at the moment.

We will try to keep you posted on our adventure and progress during this first week of October by way of this blog.  If you like what you read here please send e-mail comments to me at mogpls8@gmail.com.  I'd love to know who's following us.