Linda Blackford covers education issues across the state at the Lexington Herald-Leader. She also has covered higher education issues and writes travel articles and book reviews. In early July, Herald-Leader reporter Linda Blackford and photographer David Stephenson traveled to Aachen, Germany, and Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, to visit the most recent sites of the World Equestrian Games. They went to see what opportunities and challenges await Lexington and its own Games in 2010.