August 29, Day 9
Back on the road toward our cousin's, John & Jackie Cradick, home near Kevil, KY. We took I65 to Nashville and then I24 to Paducah and west on US 62 to Lovelaceville and then onto the back roads looking for Coon Trail Road. Very narrow country roads and we were to look for the 2nd blacktop road. We finally found one blacktop road but we had gone past Coon Trail Road a mile or two and pulled into a big farm where we say a couple of guys welding on a big corn head and ask directions. We later learned that what they call blacktop, we call a "chip and seal" which uses tar and crushed stone, so it is gray. We drove around the big barn and back on the road towards our destination. We did find Coon Trail Road and it was even a more narrow road, 1 lane (plus a little) wide. and finally found the Cradick farm entrance. In around an old barn and a winding drive past open grass areas, trees, and woods and finally back to the house in a beautiful setting with a lake behind, just like you see in the magazines.
The house was beautifully decorated inside and out with lots of flowers, lots of humming birds, and deer you could see most every morning and evening as they fed them across the lake in a clearing where there were apple trees as well. The deer love apples and eat them as high as they can reach. Then they will jump up and grab a limb, pull it down and let it snap back up knocking off some apples so the fawns can eat from the ground.
John is a great hunter as well as a Taxidermist and has mounted some of everything he has killed, I think. John is also a lifelong John Deere employee and has all kinds of memrobeila they have collected from all over the country and world. This would make a great setting for a B & B but not sure they are ready for that just yet as they do a lot of traveling and John is gone hunting a lot. We will be here a few days.