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After Geno's dire prediction I prayed this morning like I always do. Before I headed out I looked out off of my hotel balcony and was blessed by God with a beautiful scene. I took it as a good omen seeing the curvy roads I would be riding and the inclement weather ahead...



I didn't stop to take a lot of pictures today. It was raining constantly, sometimes pretty hard. However, we persevere. I did stop and put rain gear on and then stop again to take some of it off here on the river bridge.

The Wasioto, as it was called by the native Shawnee, drains about 18,000 square miles of Kentucky and Tennessee. It begins in the Appalachian mountains and flows 687 miles into the Ohio River near the confluence of the Ohio and the mighty Mississippi. One fork begins in the infamous Harlan County.
It was discovered by the white man sometime in the 1700's and renamed the Cumberland.






The cliffs you see on the left are limestone. Limestone filtered water is part of what makes Kentucky Bourbon so tasty and renowned throughout the world.




The railroad bridge in the foreground is another Warren Truss design similar to the highway bridge across the Tennessee river in my other post.





I did run over a dad racoon at about 70 mph, so maybe Geno was right.