American Discovery Trail: A Side Trip to Kentucky

A flying pig

This was a busy week, as we started in the Cincinatti suburbs, finished the 18th segment of our journey at Eden Park in Cincinatti, walked past the Flying Pigs statues and across the Ohio River into Kentucky, then walked a couple of days in Kentucky before taking the Anderson Ferry back to Ohio, all of which leaves us less than 10 miles from our next milestone at Elizabethtown, Ohio.

Eden Park in Cincinatti

The American Discovery Trail website says that the trail passes Riverfront Stadium, former home of the Cincinatti Bengals and the Cincinatti Reds. However, Wikipedia says that Riverfront Stadium was demolished in 2002, which is 22 years ago, so perhaps the trail description could use a little update.

We walked over the Roebling Suspension Bridge from Cincinatti to Covington, Kentucky.

Covington Kentucky has a significant German history, so one of the main attractions there is called Mainstrasse, which resembles a German village.

The Goose Girl statue on Mainstrasse. The Goose Girl is actually a princess in a Grimm fairy tale whose evil maid changes places with her and marries the prince in her place, leaving the real princess to tend geese. However, the wise king figures out what is going on, and the imposter princess is stripped naked, thrown in a barrel with nails poking inside, and dragged around the city by horses until she dies, so there's a happy ending,

 

The Anderson Ferry looks like a houseboat attached to a barge. I hope they have life jackets.