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Ten Amazing Facts About My Road Trip Posted: 24 Aug 2010 05:05 AM PDT I am baaaacckkk from my one-week-long, very ambitious road trip. Here are ten amazing facts. I traveled about 2,500 miles in one week I didn’t try to sneak a photo of any Amish people, although I was tempted to (Photo 1) My friends in Ohio were digging a trench on their farm and they unearthed a very old horseshoe. They gave it to me to take home as a souvenir. There’s a former Shaker village in Kentucky where you can book a room and stay overnight. It’s the closest I’ll ever get to living like a Shaker (Photo 2) You can tour coal mines in West Virginia and Pennsylvania When you’ve driven about a million miles to Loretto, Kentucky, and arrive after the last tour of the day at the Maker’s Mark bourbon distillery tour and are ready to go home all disappointed, you can still sneak into the last tour when the group walks by Bourbon will never be my drink of choice (Photo 3) I sort of learned the difference between a bushel and a peck Pearl S. Buck (The Good Earth) was born in West Virginia and I visited her former home Learned in Gettysburg, Pa., that thousands of Northerners are still obsessed with the Civil War (Photo 4)

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