On Monday, Jan. 6th we drove about 300 miles across Tennessee, through Nashville and on to Bowling Green, Kentucky. We spent the night in Bowling Green, then went on to Mammoth Cave National Park the next day.
On Tuesday, Jan. 7th we went into the national park to explore the longest cave complex in the world.
After we went to the visitor's center where Dad got a ticket to go into the cave on a ranger-guided tour, Mom and I went for a long hike around the park.
Inside he found an alien world far beneath the world we live in. The cave complex is so extensive, no one person has ever explored all of it. Some people have spent their lifetime trying to do just that.
There were inhabitants that visited the tour group to demonstrate that there can be life hundreds of feet below the surface, even in complete darkness. These guys are cave crickets, resembling daddy-longlegs spiders.
There were several cathedral-like rooms, some hundreds of feet high, and bottomless pits too.
Outside, Mom and I hiked down to the Green River, past the Historical Entrance, and around the park to the railroad station that helped to launch the park back in the 1880s.
We only saw a small part of the park because a large part of it was closed for the winter, including most of the ranger-lead tours.
Tomorrow we are heading to Ohio, only a few hundred miles for our old home in Rochester, NY.
We expect to be there by Thursday, January 9th😃.
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