My lovely wife and I just Rambled off into Tennessee, Missouri, and Kentucky (and a few other states along the way)
We visited the Civil War Battlefield at Shiloh, Tennessee........a very beautiful and moving place with clear echoes of the suffering that occurred there (about 1700 Union dead and the same number of Confederate dead). It was a major victory for U S Grant and the Union Army.
We visited St Louis with its long and illustrious history as a jumping off place for the westward expansion of America. Great city with lots of interesting museums and sites!
We spent time in Hannibal Missouri, birthplace of Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain), my favorite American of them all. He had that love of adventure; that skeptical turn of mind; that marvelous sense of humor; that beautiful turn of phrasing; that spellbinding story telling ability; that crusty distrust of the pompous; and that love of good whiskey that makes him a quintessential American.
On the return we stopped by Bowling Green Kentucky because Joe Bourbon said there was a good liquor store there................and Joe don't never tell no untruth!!
So in BG I got some 2005 George T Stagg (KY only release); some William Larue Weller; some 12 YO W L Weller; some Ancient Ancient Age 10 YO (just had to try Bunghole's favorite regular pour); some Van Winkle 13 YO Rye; and some Sazerac Rye.
I will be bombarding BE with reviews over the next week or so on my new found treasures.
In the classic 'Good Night Irene' folk/blues song by Leadbelly, he promises himself to 'Stop Ramblin, Stop Gamblin, and Stop Staying Out Late At Night', so he can win the young and forbidden Irene. In my turn I promise to Stop Gamblin and Stop Staying Out Late At Night..............but I ain't gone Stop Ramblin 'til I step in that BIG HOLE!