Finally arrive at the last pit stop in Finchville before Louisville. I see these wonderful homemade signs posted on a fence. I ask about them. Pit stop-helper, Marybeth, tells me that scouting families created the signs.
I strike up a conversation with a lady who works at Louisville's Norton Cancer Institute hoping she can answer a question that no one else has been able to answer. How did the Ride To Conquer Cancer land in Kentucky? (We and California are the only states that have the Ride.) Why Kentucky? She answers that the Canadian-based Ride organization wanted to expand its cancer-fighting efforts to America. It discovered that Kentucky has the highest cancer rates in the U.S. due to smoking and coal mining. It's a dubious honor but the Ride represents one more thing being done to defeat cancer.
More homemade signs at the Finchville pit stop. Some are on garbage containers.
Sign as I approach Louisville. Soon after this I turn off onto a pretty country road which leads to quiet residential streets funneling me into the finish line at E. P. Tom Sawyer State Park.
Finally arrive at the last pit stop in Finchville before Louisville. I see these wonderful homemade signs posted on a fence. I ask about them. Pit stop-helper, Marybeth, tells me that scouting families created the signs.
I strike up a conversation with a lady who works at Louisville's Norton Cancer Institute hoping she can answer a question that no one else has been able to answer. How did the Ride To Conquer Cancer land in Kentucky? (We and California are the only states that have the Ride.) Why Kentucky? She answers that the Canadian-based Ride organization wanted to expand its cancer-fighting efforts to America. It discovered that Kentucky has the highest cancer rates in the U.S. due to smoking and coal mining. It's a dubious honor but the Ride represents one more thing being done to defeat cancer.
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