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Bo le Hun"ng Across the U.S.


                                                  The Liquor Stores


          Another oddity from the trip through Kentucky, we were at an overpriced liquor store in Bardstown.
          He had a couple of bourbons that I already had and told us his place was the only place you could get
          them , when I told  him I had them , I don’t think he believed me.  Anyway his price was at  least twice
          what I had paid for them so Imagine my surprise when I saw a Rum that I had not seen before for  99
          cents and it was glass.  HE got a sale a$er all.  A$er 2nd collec"on (spoiler alert ...more bo les) we
          were not concerned about stopping at liquor stores on the way home...oh we s"ll stopped but we were
          down to only a few each day.  A wasn’t expec"ng to find anything new for my collec"on so imagine my
          surprise when I found a set of Tomintoul Scotches, in Tubes at a total wine in Minnesota.  Just when I
          thought I was done buying.











































           One of the funniest occurrences (and it happened many "mes on this trip) was when  the liquor store staff would tell us that either
           “they don’t make glass minis anymore, they are all plas"c” or “companies have stopped making minis “.  Several "mes I was tempt-
           ed to take them out to the truck open the back and destroy their world.  We did run into a few employees that were either collec-
           tors themselves  or found it interes"ng that we collected.  Overall we stopped at over 75 Liquor stores (we lost count on day 3)  It is
           an exci"ng experience to either find a great deal on bo les or to find something new and unique.  We even had the occasional they
           had one bo le le$ of a hard to find bo le that we had not seen in a while.  I ended up adding about 20 bo les to my collec"on
           from Liquor stores but added many more to take to the show and to have as trading stock.  I know the other guys added a lot more
           to their collec"ons from the liquor stores as they all seemed to be buying  many more "mes than I was.  Next "me the collec"ons
           we saw (and purchased from) and maybe some of the “other stops” (it was a road trip a$er all) Till then, Happy Bo le Hun"ng.









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