Kentucky Horse Farm Tour in Summer: What to Expect When the Bluegrass Is at Its Best
The Bluegrass in Summer Is Something Else There is a moment on every summer horse farm tour we run where the bus goes quiet. We will be rolling down Paris Pike or Iron Works Pike, the limestone fences blurring past, horses moving slowly through a paddock against a sky that is absurdly blue, and someone […]
The Barrel to Bottle Bourbon Tour: Inside One of Kentucky’s Best Kept Day Trip Secrets
What Happens Before the Bourbon Even Exists Most people think bourbon starts at a distillery. Pour the grain, run it through the still, age it in a barrel. Done. But the barrel itself is where the real story begins, and almost nobody talks about that part. Our Barrel to Bottle Tour was built specifically to […]
Kentucky Food and Bourbon Tour: Where Great Whiskey Meets Even Better Food
The Meal I Keep Thinking About A couple of years back, I watched a guest on one of our tours take her first bite of a hot brown at a restaurant in Bardstown and go completely silent. Not in a polite way. In a way that meant she needed a moment. That is Kentucky food. […]
Kentucky Derby Week Travel Tips for First-Time Visitors to the Bluegrass State
Nobody Tells You This About Derby Week Everyone knows the Kentucky Derby is a spectacle. The hats, the mint juleps, the two minutes of thundering horses that the whole world watches. What nobody tells you before your first trip is how much is happening around that race and how easy it is to spend the […]
Bachelor Party Bourbon Distillery Tour in Kentucky: How to Plan the Ultimate Guys Trip
This Is Not a Bar Crawl A bar crawl is fine. But a bachelor party bourbon distillery tour in Kentucky is something else entirely. It is two days, maybe three, built around some of the most historic and delicious whiskey operations in the world, driven through horse country on roads that look like they belong […]
Corporate Group Tours in Kentucky: Why Bourbon Country Is the Best Team Retreat You Have Not Tried Yet
The Corporate Retreat Problem Nobody Talks About Every year, someone on the leadership team gets assigned the job of planning the company retreat. And every year, that person stares at a screen full of the same tired options: a hotel conference room with a ropes course, a golf outing half the group does not want […]