The rain began yesterday evening and continued much of the night. As I write, a widening runoff stream is flowing under our rental car. The view from here is not much: Carol J’s Coin Laundry #1 Grandview, written in mirror image, raindrops bouncing off pavement, a patch of grass. The view ends at a Domino’s Pizza fifty yards beyond.
On the other hand, this is errand day. A rainy, cool, drab day lets us do our chores without fretting about what else we might be doing. After the laundry, we’ll find the post office to mail Pat’s ten pounds of Mardi Gras beads and a few brochures we’ve collected.
We began this walking project not long after the turn of the century, adding one or two capitals at a time. Some quick math told us we just aren’t going to live that long and we began earnest traveling, grouping capitals and making grand tours utilizing car, train, airplanes, ferry, and now bus. In the 2009 autumn, we visited seven midwestern capitals, the fall of 2010 gave us ten in the northeast, and this, our first winter trip, yielded eight more.
As we sit here, watching bouncing raindrops, we have six more state capitals to visit and walk - Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Then we can turn our attention to the remainder of the Canadian provincial parliament buildings. I still have fantasies of walking the pilgrim path from Hamar to Trondheim, or instead, something ending in St. Petersburg.
It is 10:30 on our last night in Frankfort. We visited and toured the Buffalo Trace Bourbon Distillery and the Kentucky State Capitol today. Both were fascinating. Kentucky is, in our studied opinion, certainly among the top five most beautiful capitol buildings, right up there with Harrisburg and Hartford.
Tonight, we attended the Ash Wednesday service with the good people at the Church of the Ascension, an Episcopalian congregation that started in 1836. The current church was originally completed in 1852.
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