tuesday may 10, 2005 – gun mountain amusement park & the castle at lexington

slept nice and late, dragged ourselves to the tahoe for the short (4 hr) drive to lexington. there’s a town in between nashville and lexington called cave town (i think that’s what it’s called, at least). we stopped for lunch in cave town at jerry’s, totally empty save for the nervous waitress. near the restaurant is gun mountain amusement park (one can only imagine what happens there), diamond cavern & mammoth cave, making this town a major tourist attraction.
on the way into lexington we passed by our lodging for the night, a place called the castle. apparently the ex-owner went to europe with his bride, she liked the castles, they came home and he built her one. about a year into construction they divorced, and he sold to a random connection of mine. sometime thereafter the main part of the house within the castle walls burned to the ground. anyway, that’s where we stayed the night after the lexington show, outside the castle walls in the guest quarters, which are currently used as construction headquarters. found glenn and the fluffers having a pint outside the dame, the only real venue in lexington, near the university of kentucky. lexington’s a really quaint town of about 225000 or so, perfect main street and city hall, with a hat shop, pool hall, and the dame just across the road.
load in, soundcheck, show (broke reed #30 on the wurly , glenn show, check for internet upstairs at the club and run into vicous wireless internet guard dogs, head back downstairs & next door to check on the spurs game at the pool hall, witness spurs destruction of seattle supersonics, load out, hit the pita pit for late night falafel, and off to the castle.
we discussed the castle with some lexington locals who basically couldn’t believe we were staying there, it’s so interred in lexington lore that the concept of people actually being on the property must have been totally foreign. the reality of lodging at the castle’s guest quarters was unremarkable, other than the fact that carson awoke to discover a roll of toilet paper, a crowbar, and a machete next to his bed...