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Owensboro is teaming with Holiday World in an effort to persuade visitors to the theme park to spend the night in Owensboro.
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"I'm really passionate about travel," Ward said. One social influencer last year wanted $13,000 on top of that, he said. Kirk said all the CVB had to do for Ward's visit was comp a hotel room for two nights and meals. Now, she's doing it full time and has a travel book coming out in September. "It turned into a hobby and grew into something bigger than I thought it would." She said she started with a food-focused blog and moved into writing about travel.
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Ward said she got into blogging five years ago when she moved to the Indianapolis area from northern Indiana. "We wanted to go to Niko's, but we ran out of time." "We visited the Cottage Farm Stand on our way out of town Saturday," she said. Ward said they ate at the Miller House, City Walk of Owensboro, Old Hickory Bar-B-Que and visited three coffee shops - The Creme Coffee House, Gramps Coffee & Donuts and Red Swing Coffee. "We went to the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame, Green River Distilling Co., Western Kentucky Botanical Garden, Friday After 5 and ate a lot of food," she said. Ward said she and her husband got to Owensboro on Thursday evening and stayed at the Holiday Inn Owensboro Riverfront. It's about a three-hour drive from Owensboro. On her webpage, Ward explains, "I like to throw on the occasional pair of heels and embrace a night out in the big city, but I've also learned to appreciate the farm-town living, country drives and sunsets over the cornfields."ĭave Kirk, the CVB's destination management director, said Indianapolis is one of the cities the CVB is targeting for visitors. Her travel blog is titled "Cornfields and High Heels." It has a small-town feel with big-city things to do. I learned that it's the Bluegrass Capital of the World and Kentucky's fourth-largest city. "It was my first trip to Owensboro," she said.