Josh: Tomorrow we're gonna go check out the Thoroughbred Center which is a horse
reading...ahh, a horse breeding, as well as some distilleries...blah! That's hard.
Good morning everyone! So, I would like to welcome you from Kentucky! So we spent
the last two days driving to get here, it was 12 hours both ways
so those are very long two days.
We drove, had enough time to sleep, drove the next day and then crashed as soon as we got here.
It is is such a nice change to be in the warmth and the Sun. It's gonna be about
28 feels like 34 today, so that's a big change from the 14 or whatever we were at the day
that we left so, it's very nice so far! Yeah, we didn't really sleep too well
last night. We got to the Airbnb, which is in a really nice spot, like it's
near the university, it relatively close to downtown, but the bed was like
the shape of a "U". I was relatively uncomfortable last night and it's weird
thinking then looking forward to camping again to get on the air mattress.
But at this point it's kind of how it feels.
Anyway, so what we're gonna be doing today is we're gonna show you guys Lexington and
we have no idea what's here. I tried looking up things on TripAdvisor - what to
see, what to do - there's not a whole lot listed, so as of right now I don't even
know what we're gonna see and do - so we're gonna wander around and I guess that's
exactly what you'll see!
So the first place that we've come across
on our walk is here at the University of Kentucky, so we just passed the Medical
Center that's associated with it, and now it kind of seems like the main road
passes right through the center of campus, so we're going to have to walk straight
through campus, and right now it actually looks quite pretty, it's a very nice spot.
The University of Kentucky was founded in 1865
It has a student population of over 30,000
It boasts 93 undergraduate and 99 graduate programs, 66 doctoral degrees and 4 professional schools.
Sign: Snow Emergency Route. Parking and Travel Restricted when emergency declared.
So, when you're in southern regions like this, and I know I went to school in
Tennessee which is one state down, that when they actually do get snow they have
an emergency evacuation plan, so areas like this not used to getting snow and if
they do maybe it's once or twice a year, and it's not long enough to stay - like a
day usually - so when snow comes the whole city like shuts down! They don't have any
snowplows here or anything like that right, so it's fun and it's
interesting seeing little signs like that.
Lexington was established in 1762 and incorporated in 1831
It is the second largest city in Kentucky.
Lexington is known as the horse capitol of the world.
It has a population of over 315,000 people making it the 60th largest city in the USA.
Now I have forgotten how uncomfortable humidity can be. Luckily today there is a
nice breeze going on, but we are drinking a ton of water and I could tell that I'm
not used to it. I know when I went to school in Tennessee, I moved there in the
summer - July or August - one of those two, anyway for the first little while it
was fine walking to school in the morning because it was still nice and
cool and breezy, but then by the time I would get off in the afternoon and walk
home - and I was only like maybe ten minutes from the campus to where I live -
I would have to have a shower. It was so humid and it's all starting to come back
to me how humid these areas actually are! So it's gonna be a weird
adjustment for the first few days. I think we're only in Kentucky for a
handful days, I think three or four days, and then we're kind of moving our way up
north a little bit, so I think that humidity is gonna get less and less so
we won't have that much to adjust to, but it definitely is an adjustment already. I
can, I can feel just everything just sweating and it's gross.
So you may be noticing a distinct lack of people and today is actually Memorial
Day so we're guessing that a lot of people aren't gonna be downtown.
It seems like a lot of things are closed up for the day and of course there's really
no businesses open, I know a few fast food places and the grocery stores seem
to be open, but I think that's why the city is pretty pretty bare and pretty
quiet at the moment. Which is fine it makes it really nice for kind of walking
around exploring, getting pictures without a whole bunch of people in them and that
sort of thing.
This area is known as the Cheapside slave auction block.
In the 19th century, Lexington was the main slave trading center in Kentucky.
By 1840, 1,000's of slaves - including children - were already sold through this area to people from the southern United States.
So, I'm gonna throw this one out to my American viewers - does anybody know the
significance of the blue horse? I'm sure I will know by the end of the day
because I will look it up, but as of right this second I have no idea!
Alright everyone, thank you so much for joining us today as we explored
Lexington. As you saw, I thought the city was really clean and pretty,
that being said, considering the amount of people on the street there was a
extremely high amount of...I'm gonna say homeless...that kind of struck me as
odd, but besides that, very beautiful city.
We spent probably three or four hours exploring and walking, so we are gonna
call it a day and get some well-deserved rest!
Alright everyone, thank you so much! If you liked video hit the thumbs up, and as
always subscribe for more this content. Tomorrow we're gonna go check out the
Thoroughbred Center - a conditioning center for racehorses - as well as some distilleries
Blah! That's hard! As well as distilleries coming up, so be sure to
check out those videos! Hope to see you next time! Bye!