•9:23 PM
September 27, 2010 9:23 p.m.
Day 3 is Sept. 6 .
We woke up in Horse Cave, Kentucky at the Horse Cave KOA. We had an interesting and exciting visit to Mammoth Cave. We were happy to get our National Park Passports stamped. We have two of them. One passport I began back in 1991 during my first visit to Yellowstone with my brother and dad. The other passport is for national park visits with my husband and children. We have had the second book since our Blue Ridge Parkway and Shenandoah NP trip a few years ago (before we had the Sprinter van). We enjoyed out stay in this KOA Kampground. It had pretty grounds and mini-golf and play equipment. Our main complaint the first night was the dusty location - there was a big Labor Day crowd and every time someone drove by our site, they kicked up a bunch of dust that prevented us from being able to use the picnic table.
Besides visiting Mammoth Cave, it was also a good day to relax a bit and to fill up on groceries at the local Mal-Wart in Glasgow, Kentucky. We ended up having to call the Discover Card folks to get our card turned on again. They had shut it down after seeing "unusual" activity. This is a nice feature of Discover, but it can also be annoying and embarrassing.
Mammoth Cave is huge. We took a tour that was two miles long in the cave, and we only saw a tiny fraction of it. The ranger leading the tour was careful to weed out the folks who might not be up to the experience by explaining all its challenges up front. He described it all so vividly, that I nearly changed my mind. In reality, it was a good deal of fun to go through all the narrow and small passageways, but it sounded scary at first. I was surprised that there weren't any stalagmites or stalactites in this cave. I guess I thought all caves were kind of similar, but I was wrong.
Pictures from this day:
Oh, and a funny. Apparently, while we were lunching at a picnic area at this park, a person reported a wasp nest underneath one of the picnic tables. A park ranger came out and took care of the problem. He sprayed the wasp nest and did what he could to identify the hazard to potential picknickers. I love the way the Federal Government addresses a crisis.
Day 3 is Sept. 6 .
We woke up in Horse Cave, Kentucky at the Horse Cave KOA. We had an interesting and exciting visit to Mammoth Cave. We were happy to get our National Park Passports stamped. We have two of them. One passport I began back in 1991 during my first visit to Yellowstone with my brother and dad. The other passport is for national park visits with my husband and children. We have had the second book since our Blue Ridge Parkway and Shenandoah NP trip a few years ago (before we had the Sprinter van). We enjoyed out stay in this KOA Kampground. It had pretty grounds and mini-golf and play equipment. Our main complaint the first night was the dusty location - there was a big Labor Day crowd and every time someone drove by our site, they kicked up a bunch of dust that prevented us from being able to use the picnic table.
Besides visiting Mammoth Cave, it was also a good day to relax a bit and to fill up on groceries at the local Mal-Wart in Glasgow, Kentucky. We ended up having to call the Discover Card folks to get our card turned on again. They had shut it down after seeing "unusual" activity. This is a nice feature of Discover, but it can also be annoying and embarrassing.
Mammoth Cave is huge. We took a tour that was two miles long in the cave, and we only saw a tiny fraction of it. The ranger leading the tour was careful to weed out the folks who might not be up to the experience by explaining all its challenges up front. He described it all so vividly, that I nearly changed my mind. In reality, it was a good deal of fun to go through all the narrow and small passageways, but it sounded scary at first. I was surprised that there weren't any stalagmites or stalactites in this cave. I guess I thought all caves were kind of similar, but I was wrong.
Pictures from this day:
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| Along the tour. |
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| Strange photo. I cannot remember why it came out this way. |
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| Nobody's going to want to get within a mile of this table for the next year! |
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