Well the original plan was to wake up early in Western Kentucky and drive as fast as we could across the state so that we could check out the World’s Largest Yard Sale on highway 127. But… The weekend was so busy I slept for 12 straight hours and woke up around 9 AM Central Time.

We figured it would be too late and all the gettin’ woulda been picked by the time we got there so we brainstormed what to do with the rest of the day. We decided we would go pawn shopping and flea marketing for games and guns.

Where’s the best spot to hit up pawn shops you may ask? Near army bases. I cant really explain this phenomenon but the plan was to go up through Elizabethown, Radcliff and end up on Dixie Highway in Louisville. Through this route we would pass many pawn shops and another place on the bucket list. Fort Knox.

I don’t know how I’ve managed to live in Kentucky so long and never visit Fort Knox but I can say that Goldfinger is my favorite Bond flick(well maybe that or License to Kill because that one’s set in the Keys which is my other favorite place on Earth but that’s not the point).

Now you can’t actually go in Fort Knox and that’s just the way it is. But you can view it from a safe distance behind a fence. So we did precisely that. That’s about all we did.

On a side note, Fort Knox is my best justification for why Kentucky should secede from the Union. I mean, think about it, our economy would be doing better then the United States.

You can also check out the Patton museum, which I hear has the Fort Knox souvenir shop, but I will have to save that for another day.