🇺🇸 UIUC Road Trip: Kentucky in One Day! 🚗

(From Illinois cornfields to Kentucky’s rolling green hills—what a vibe shift!) 🏇 Stop 1: Churchill Downs 📍 704 Central Ave, Louisville 🐎 The heart of Kentucky Derby culture! Book a tour to see stables, tracks & jockey quarters. 🥪 Lunch: The Goose Eatery 🍽️ Hot Brown Sandwich—Louisville’s cheesy, turkey-loaded masterpiece. Worth every calorie! 🥃 Stop 2: Woodford Reserve Distillery 📍 7785 McCracken Pike, Versailles 🌾 Bourbon heaven! The tour covers fermentation (hello, malty aromas!), aging, and a 5-glass tasting—the best whiskey I’ve had in the US! 👁️ Bonus Stop: "Eye Chart House" 📍 *(38.0582900, -84.6004900)* 🏡 A quirky pitstop—this lone house in a field kinda resembles an eye chart. Perfect for moody photos! 🍗 Dinner: Claudia Sanders Dinner House 🐔 Colonel Sanders’ original recipe (pre-KFC!). The fried chicken? Crispy, juicy, nostalgic. And those rolls? Texas Roadhouse who? 🌉 Nightcap: Big Four Bridge ✨ Walk this Indiana-Kentucky connector for skyline views. Romantic AF! #UIUC #Kentucky #RoadTrip #BourbonTrail