Backroading

One of our favorite things to do together since we got married is something we call ‘backroading’. Which basically means purposely getting lost on the farthest-back back roads we can find, and putting lots of miles on our pick-up.

On a recent Sunday we were staying home from church because we were all still recovering from a bad case of sniffles. But we were so ready to get out of the house (had been sick for two weeks!) that we decided to take that day and go backroading. We hadn’t done that since the summer, so it was high time! I packed a lunch to take in the car, and we were off!

One of our main purposes for backroading is to look for old houses. We just love coming up on a 19th century homestead and imagining what is used to look like in its glory days. It’s so sad to see these beautiful old houses abandoned and falling down.

This particular backroading trip took us into Kentucky,and we got to see some beautiful country! One of our biggest dreams is to have land of our own someday, so seeing fertile vistas really sparks our ‘someday’ conversations.

Jordan has trained me to be on the lookout for anything made of log. This log barn hidden in the woods was a neat find. Many times the old houses we see are also likely to be log underneath the painted siding.

Love seeing big barns! We can’t wait to build a barn of our own.

A general store in an abandoned downtown. (occasionally the roads to lead us into towns, but we leave as quick as we can!)

An old broken dam at a mill site over a big creek…

Sometimes if we are lucky, we catch glimpses of 19th century mansions that have been restored and are being lived in – it doesn’t take much imagination then to see what a grand place it must have been back in the day!

You really never know what is around the next bend in the road!

We ended our day with a beautiful sunset as we crossed the state line back into Tennessee, headed home.