I left on Wednesday morning and drove the 8 hours on I-40, I-77, and I-64 over to Lexington, KY for the second stop on the Extreme Entrepreneur Tour. This stop brought us to Bluegrass Technical Community College.

At the event, I spoke with 24 year old Doug Fath of Faithful Investments of Philadelphia and Michael Simmons and Sheena Lindahl of Brooklyn, the tour organizers.

I arrived in Lexington Wednesday evening thoroughly sunburned--for some reason not realizing that five hours in the sun driving in a convertible might do that to me, even if it was only 65 degrees out. But I survived and quickly fell asleep at the Holiday Inn Express of Lexington.

Thursday morning brought a breakfast introduction to Doug Fath then a couple hours to work on my presentation. Around 1:30pm, I drove Doug over to Applebee's Park, the Lexington Legends Baseball Stadium where the event was being held.

From 3pm to 8pm Doug, Michael, Sheena, myself, and four other entrepreneurs from the community alternated doing keynotes, panels, and workshops with the student attendees. The theme of the day was two fold--one: how to find, follow, and pursue your passion in life, and two: how to get started today.

Among the audience were students interested in starting restaurants, hotels, salons, fashion lines, real estate investment firms, salsa product lines, and cake stores.

My two favorite quotes of the day came from participants Coleman and Anne. Anne noted at one point, "Don't pay attention to people who don't believe in you. Don't listen to the dream killers." Coleman later asked brilliantly, "If you don't have dreams what are you?"

After the event the organizer from the college Virginia, the freelance videographer Tre, Michael, Sheena, Katie, Doug, and I went to dinner at Harry's just outside of town. I had my usual Unagi and salmon roll with Sprite.

Today I woke up around 7am to find it raining. This wasn't any good as the top of my convertible doesn't latch properly at the moment and I theoretically can't drive over 50mph while it's raining. I made it about 30 miles out of town before my arm was too sore from holding the roof closed to continue. I stopped at a McDonalds and read and did a couple conference calls with the office for about 2 hours.

Finally I wondered into a random antique/inside farmer's market type store and bought myself two raincoats, a blanket, and a US Marines hat. I put the roof down and drove in the rain pretty much all of the past eight hours while listening to Madeleine Albright's book on CD, Madame Secretary. Thankfully for aerodynamics, raincoats, and the blanket neither myself nor the inside of the car got very wet at all. I did get some strange looks from toll booth collectors in West Virginia though. It's amazing what you'll do to get home.

The tour continues next Wednesday at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. If you live in the area, you can RSVP at http://extremetour.org/.