{"id":839,"date":"1988-08-26T19:17:00","date_gmt":"1988-08-26T19:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/?p=839"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:53:09","slug":"pippa-passes-ky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/pippa-passes-ky\/","title":{"rendered":"Pippa Passes, KY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A brief pause in Buckhorn in the morning, where two friends were socializing at the post office. Lots of dogs in Kentucky.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The town of Chavies was too small to have a restaurant, so I stopped at the general store and got some Vienna sausage and hamburger buns for lunch. I poured out the liquid from the can onto the ground on the other side of a chain-link fence, then sat on the porch of the store to eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In just a minute, I noticed two small puppies licking the ground where I had poured the liquid. I tossed them tiny bits of bread and sausage. Five minutes later, a third puppy showed up. Ten minutes later, a fourth puppy joined in, wagging its tail eagerly for morsels. After ten more minutes, a fifth puppy came along. They were so cute! I kept tossing them tiny bits of food until everything was gone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Final count = 5.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bearville, whch didn’t even show on the Bikecentennial map I had at the time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Late that afternoon, I stopped in Pippa Passes. This was the location of one of the few real hostels on the Trail.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Pippa Passes Hostel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The parents of the hostel were not around, but I met Didi and Wendy, two college girls from Texas A&M, on the porch. They were touring in a car. Didi was CE, Wendy was Dairy Science. I suppressed an overwhelming urge to break out laughing when she said “Dairy Science,” knowing that it must actually be a serious discipline in some places.<\/p>\nHey, I was ignorant; I admit it.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Wendy (L) and Dina “Didi” (R)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The door of the hostel was unlocked, but no one answered the doorbell. Didi and Wendy decided to drive about 50 more miles to a nearby Y (one can do that when touring in a car), but I continued to wait. In fifteen minutes, Charlotte Madden, the keeper of the hostel, arrived. She was surprised that I hadn’t gone in, yet.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Charlotte Madden who ran the hostel, with some of the fresh vegetables from her garden. She had a Lilikoi vine, but called it a Pomegranate. That might have been the local term.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The town of Chavies was too small to have a restaurant, so I stopped at the general store and got some Vienna sausage and hamburger buns for lunch. I poured out the liquid from the can onto the ground on the other side of a chain-link fence, then sat on the porch of the store … Continue reading Pippa Passes, KY<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions\/1010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike1988\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}