No baseball trip through Kentucky would be complete without a stop at the museum of Hillerich & Bradsby, makers of the Louisville Slugger. There are movies, famous historical bats (no Dracula jokes, please) and a gift shop. The web site is a bit sparse, but you can't argue with a great big statue of a bat outside the building.

The rest of today's trip is pretty uneventful. They won't let you into the gold room at Fort Knox, Mammoth Cave would take up a full day, and even the memorial to doomed spelunker Floyd Collins only takes a few minutes. So it's down into Tennessee, past Nashville and into Chattanooga. There to ride the Lookout Mountain Incline, which promises breathtaking views of Chattanooga. And all the "choo-choo" jokes one can make.

Day 12: Louisville to Chattanooga
Mileage Today: 308.2
States: Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia
Route Traveled: I-65 south through all of Kentucky and continuing south to Nashville, I-24 southeast to Chattanooga (clipping a corner of Georgia).