Boo Hoo, no Barbie.

We were promised a BBQ at Lexington South Carolina this weekend with some of the other boys from Watt and Stewart who were waiting for loads there, but we got loaded there on Friday afternoon and went up to Paducah, Kentucky to wait until Monday morning when we can legally run through Illinois.

Making the best of our reset here, we chose to book into a motel (Americas Best Value) for two nights to give us a break from the truck.

There is a well known BBQ place in Paducah with a good reputation, and wood stacked up outside which we had pegged yesterday ready for a lunchtime visit today.

We went 'round there today, and it's closed on Sunday!

I looked through the windows and as I did it smelled like the smokehouse in Whitby.

Oh well, maybe next time.

This picture by Cath

In 1996, the Paducah Wall to Wall mural program was begun by Louisiana mural artist Robert Dafford and his team on the floodwall in downtown. The over 50 murals cover a number of subjects, including Native American history, industries such as river barges and hospitals, local African-American heritage, the old Carnegie Library on Broadway St., steamboats, and local labor unions. (Wiki)

This picture by Cath

Steamboat traffic on the river.

The Coca Cola plant, closed in 2005.

Steamboat crews waiting for guests.

I always struggle taking shots of other peoples art work because they need to be seen in context, ie, full size in the correct setting. The pictures above are all along the flood wall alongside the river, and it's nice to see that they haven't been covered in graffiti, but the USA always seems so much more civilised, and well mannered place (in general).

Downtown Paducah

Downtown Paducah

Tomorrow we head out for Alberta via Illinois, Ohio, South Dakota, North Dakota and Saskatchewan.

If we get back without any problems we should be able to turn and burn back south to who knows where.