After interviewing LaMarque Ward in Cincinnati Friday afternoon, we took off on a three hour drive to Bowling Green, Kentucky to our campground.
Little did I know, this was not just a campground. Oh no, this is a 500 spot+ campground with an amusement park and a NASCAR track inside the grounds.
Did you think I was kidding?? THIS IS KENTUCKY!
We woke up Saturday morning to have a hearty breakfast:
Yup, that’s just what you think it is. Spaghetti-Os and toast. Or as I prefer to call it, Spaghetti-Owich. Mmm
Chip took the more traditional breakfast route
and dined on beefaroni.
After breakfast we packed up for an exciting day at
Mammoth Caves is the biggest cave system in the world! There are 392 miles of caves discovered so far, but only 12 miles are open to tourists. Chip and I took the historical tour.
Our tour guide was not the best. Actually, he was totally boring and took about twenty minutes to tell one short, historical tale. When a six year old asked him when the tour was going to be over, everyone laughed a little too loudly.
Despite the snooze of a guide, being 300 feet underground was pretty cool. I did not enjoy Fat Man’s Misery, a tiny, twisting passage you had to duck to get through. The cave has signatures from the orginal tourists in Mammoth Caves- some date all the way back to 1830. People burned their names into the stone with a candle wick and walking sticks, dot by dot.
We emerged from Mammoth Caves two hours and forty fives minutes later into the light!
Oh, Kentucky.
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