Kristian Naugle - Tour through Bardstown Road in Louisville Kentucky March 2023

This video was recorded on the night of Wednesday March 29th 2023 as I was leaving the Cherokee Park Rehabilitation Center near the Cherokee Park portion of the Highlands in Louisville Kentucky. I was visiting my girlfriend there at the Cherokee Park Rehabilitation center because she had a broken leg resulting from a crash on Bardstown Road in Louisville.

I decided to record a video as I was driving through the Highlands of Bardstown Road in Louisville because it's so fascinating there with the colorful lights on the buildings. Some are in the buildings as seen through the windows.

I had went many years in-between visits through this area but I first began driving through this area in the summer of 2005. I had went more than 10 years in-between visits through this part of Louisville Kentucky and that's why I was not entirely familiar with the locations.

The first time driving through Bardstown Road in this part of Louisville was in the summer of 2005 when I was visiting the Arcade Odyssey, which is the arcade repair shop I mentioned across from Taco Bell in this video.

I narrate the video through my own voice as I was driving and offer visual explanation when I was editing the video. I also mentioned that the people of Kentucky have a habit of thinking of Indiana as if it were a foreign country. You can notice it in the way they talk about Indiana. My first time dealing with this was in the fall of 2006 when I as a person born in Indiana and spending most of my life in southern Indiana, was asked by my co-workers in Louisville about where I live.

They sometimes asked me where I live. I told them, "right across the river." I said this casually and thought it would be understood because we could see Indiana when we looked outside the window of the place where I worked at the time. Indiana was visible along with the Ohio River that separates Indiana from Kentucky.

My co-workers always sounded puzzled when they would respond by asking if I was talking about Indiana. They'd say, "in Indiana"? They would ask this in a tone that suggested that they think of Indiana as a foreign country. It's probably because they've never been to Indiana even though they could see it outside the window of where we were working at the time.

The Ohio River is only one mile wide at its widest part. However, most people who live in Louisville Kentucky seem to think of it as a bio dome that contains everything they need and never have any reason to leave out of for any reason.

But anyway, you get to see my drive home from Louisville Kentucky, then crossing the Ohio River into Indiana, and driving through Interstate Highway 64 west to Corydon Indiana where I live.