We spent the first night of our road trip in Lexington, Kentucky. Normally when I plan our trips I verge on over planning. I research hotels and restaurants and make spreadsheets of the best locations and an itinerary of things to see each day. We can be flexible, but it's nice to have an outline so we don't miss anything we really want to see.
But on this road trip we wanted to be a little more spontaneous. We hoped to make it all the way to Lexington on our first day, about a 7-hour drive and we'd read we could get a hotel easily enough without a reservation so we played it by ear. Unfortunately we don't follow horse racing. Little did we know, two of the biggest horse events of the year were happening in Kentucky the two days we would be travelling through. In Lexington, it was the Rolex, Kentucky and the city was almost booked to capacity. A week later we hadn't learned our lesson and had to skip Louisville because it was Kentucky Derby weekend. So we've learned to check the calendar for horse events when visiting Kentucky in the future.
But we managed to find a room for the night, and Lexington was good to us. Everything came together almost magically without planning. We used the Rate Beer Places app to find a bar with craft beer that was open nearby. When we arrived we saw a taco truck in front of another bar across the street. So we went over and ordered some tacos.
We were shocked and delighted when the taco guy asked whether which bar we wanted our tacos delivered to. He said he'd bring them to us across the street! It was a nice change from our home town where they've just voted not to allow food trucks on city streets at all.
