We’ve traded in our Crocs and flip-flops for some proper hiking shoes and have been enjoying some great trail adventures... both above and below ground. Here are two new photo albums:
Click here for the Smoky Mountains.
Click here for Mammoth Cave.
The kids set a new “personal best” by hiking the Alum Cave Trail in the Smoky Mountains - an 11-mile trek that included a change in elevation of more than 2,800 feet. It took us over 6.5 hours to make it up and back with just a stop or two for Goldfish and juice.
Emily made the journey slightly injured... two nights prior she fell off her chair and right into the fire pit at our campsite. Fortunately, the only damage was to her shin, where she is now sporting a burn/scrape.
You may notice a new face in some of our blog photos... Neela the Cow. This was give to Emily by Neil, the salesman from whom we purchased our RV. She promised to show Neela a good time and lots of interesting sites on our travels across the country so you’ll be seeing her in photos from time to time.
At Mammoth Cave, Pat and Drew participated in an Introduction to Caving tour that included 3 hours of climbing, belly-crawling and more; their only light source being head lamps. For obvious reasons, the camera was unable to join them underground, but let’s just say they had a BLAST!
We all enjoyed the “Grand Avenue” tour which covered about 4 miles of the 360+ miles that make up the Mammoth Cave system. It was amazing how spacious some of the sections we toured felt, considering we were about 250 feet underground. For more info. about the cave, see the kids’ latest reports from the field.
Next stop: Indiana
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