Packed up the car today and hit the road. Assignment: Find the current state of country music. Yikes.
Was on the road for a few hours when I crossed over the Kentucky state line. I was in the state for about 10 minutes when I saw a sign for my first stop – Big Bone Lick State Park.
Here’s a quick sum-up of the Big Bone Lick Story:
1) Mastadons used to rule Kentucky
2) The mastadons die off and the bones create salt deposits. Some colonial wise-acre called the area Big Bone Lick.
3) Thomas Jefferson visited the park once.
4) The park is now operated by a man named Santa Claus and is overrun by bison
One of the bison at the park is the world-famous Curly Fro-Fro. As a baby bison, Curly made friends with a park visitor. The visitor taught Curly how to play the guitar and write sad songs about indigestion and wind-storms. That visitor was Johnny Cash.
So, I got a free concert from a living legend. And then I fed him some grass and watched him poop. This trip is awesome!
