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Louisville, Kentucky, is home to the greatest horserace of all time, the Kentucky Derby, each May, with its nearly as famous sister race the Oaks run the day beforethe Derby, both at historic Churchill Downs. It is a beautiful racetrack, with great views of the paddock as well as the track, and has a fantastic Kentucky Derby Museum. Spring and fall the have some weekend evening racing which is exciting as can be, since most races occur while most of us folk are working during the day time.

Muhammad Ali Museum, an extremely thorough and captivating collection of history and memorabilia combined with interactive segments that show the life and times of "The Greatest" boxer of our age.

The Speed Museum and several other well endowed art collections, some of the largest in the midwest US, rivalling many in much larger cities.

Fourth Street Live, a lively afterhours part of downtown populated with bars, restaurants, clubs, comedy clubs, and in general all manner of after dark entertainment.

Louisville Slugger museum---yes a museum dedicated to the baseball bat, and the largest manufacturer of them in history, along with a lot of baseball related historic memorabilia.

The Bourbon Trail----actually two different trails (three if you count the downtown walking trail of whiskey bars). An eastern loop around Lexington sends you on tours of several historic bourbon distilleries, as does a similar but more popular western loop tour of distilleries around Louiville.

If you are smart you will take the backroads for the Bourbon tours and see some of the most beautiful bluegrass horse country in America, extending in a broad swath from Louisville to east of Lexington, including some farms that allow tours, and several specific historic museum like farms for retired or other famous racehorses.

Fort Knox----yes that Fort Knox, the one with all the gold. Although you never really get to see the vaults themselves, it is an interesting historical tour of the gold repository as well as the Army base it just happens to be situated on, one of the largest in the US.

A daytrip to visit the Shiloh battlefield in northwest Tennessee, site of the first major battle of the Civil war fought outside of Virginia, in the West, where Ulysses S Grant first made a name for himself in the Union Army by rallying overwhelmed troops to finally take the field at the end of one of the longest and largest single day battles of the war. The start of his Mississippi River campaign to cut the Confederacy in two, ending with the Vicksburg siege that effectively sounded the death knell for the confederacy, coincident with the confederate loss at Gettysburg. It all started at Shiloh.

A Louisville Bats minor league baseball game, a University of Louisville football or basketball game, or a short trip down highway 64 to watch the University of Kentucky basketball team play a game. We are blessed with two of the country's top college basketball programs only 70 miles apart.

The mighty Ohio River, with the Belle of Louisvile riverboat tour.

A day trip to the Red River Gorge with some of the midwest's most beautiful hiking trails and stone formations, thankfully saved from the Tennessee valley Authority dam builders 20+ years ago by the Sierra Club and other nature activists.

And of course, our renowned southern hospitality would bring the many local kilties out for a fantastic "kilt night" in honor of the guest vistor at one (or more) of our favorite local venues.

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