It all started with Bobby. He is our sales rep for various men's accessories products like Tommy Hilfiger belts and wallets and Geoffrey Beene jewelry. Bobby came up from Florida--where he recently lost his home and every material thing he and his family owned in Hurricane Ivan to visit our stores and insure his product was properly displayed.
So he asks me to do him a favor and drive him around our stores in central Kentucky. This was a pleasure for me as I love visiting our stores, greeting our associates and driving the rural Kentucky landscape.
We started from our Gardenside store, where we keep our central offices. Next was Fayette Mall. But it was the remaining portion of our journey that was simply SPECTACULAR!
Leaving that store we headed out of town through Nicholasville to our store in Danville, home of Centre College, who beat Harvard 6-0 in a 1921 game that the Associated Press later billed as the upset of the century. It was the first time Harvard lost an intersectional game in 4 decades.
We then circled back east to our store in Richmond, KY. This drive, though field after rolling field, over, by and through streaming brooks and windy two lane roads, was “over the river and through the woods” awesome! Cows so peaceful, either laying in the field, or munching on their feast of greens. Circling hawks, flying geese, ravens and roosters, pristine ponds--'twas as if Audubon himself had ordered this farmland fantasy.
And most dramatic was the sky: it was alive with action. Crystal blue with crisp, gale force winds blowing massive billowing clouds--some white, some various shades of gray--a real Dutch Masters portrait. From Richmond to Winchester we even caught a choo-choo train as it snaked by the tumbling stream.
Bobby said it best: “This is the most beautiful state and this is the most spectacular postcard perfect scenery I have ever seen.” Bobby, a 30 year road warrior veteran, echoed the sentiments of every salesperson I’ve worked with who has traversed our Commonwealth. From Chicago to New York, California to Florida, all who’ve visited Kentucky calls it the most scenic of states.
I woulda paid for this drive, but like most of life’s best things, it was free!
Moo on! Rfd 12/7/04
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