From TN into KY for a day or so.
This is a road trip, so why not spend a little more time in the car, here we are at the drive in movie theater in Franklin KY. Avengers, Age of Ultron.
We primarily bounced into KY to visit Mammoth Cave. With over 400 miles of mapped cave system, it's the largest in the world. This was our awesome tour guide. For 2 hours and 2 miles, he led us through cathedrals and narrow passage ways like...
Fat Man's Misery, a keyhole shaped passageway where our group had to walk single file, and basically sideways. No flash is allowed in the cave to keep from disrupting the natural eco system (bats), so this is about all you'll see underground.
Insert Plato emerging from the cave joke here
The park is actually much bigger than the cave underground, 82 plus square miles. We had a chance to explore some of the above ground trails too. Lots of wild life can be found. This frog, a snake, and a momma owl finding food for babbies.
Looking at the River Styx, this water flows out of the cave.
Jim climbing the trail
Junior Park Ranger badge number 2!
Then on to Bowling Green, KY for a visit to the National Corvette Museum. Here Jim poses with the last remaining Corvette from the year of his birth, 1983.
The museum houses innumerable Vettes, many of which are displayed in this entry gallery, as a temporary solution to the display space that was lost in the sink hole you may remember hearing about in the news, February 2014. Many of the cars recovered from the sink hole are on display, though hardly recognizable. I didn't take their pictures, it was too sad.
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