May 20-21, 2018 Park City, Kentucky

We are camped at Thousand Trails Diamond Caverns RV park right outside of Mammoth Cave National Park.

 I am not usually up for sunrise but the last two days we have not had enough power to run the AC units. It is around 90 and humid during the day, gets down to high 60's at 5 am, still with humidity, so I have not been sleeping. But I did see this cool sunrise. Ricky and Kristie cooked up a huge lunch for us before we left today. Great hosts. Was yummy. John, Kristie, Ricky and Teri. 

We passed through Bowling Green, Kentucky on the way here. It is home to Western Kentucky University. We will go back and tour the corvette plant and see the underground river. In Russellville we passed through Governor's Corner. There is a governor's mansion on each corner of this intersection. The bus parked at Diamond Caverns. As soon as we got there and hooked up a thunderstorm started. We have 50 amp power and can run both AC units. It is blessedly cool in here now. 

I started another masterpiece. The center is a piece of glass I made. It has blue crackle glass beads so far. Looking good.  Today we went to Mammoth Cave National Park and took one of the tours of the cave. It is the longest cave in the world, 412 miles long. Not the biggest, but the longest. Our tour had 95 people on it. We started by walking down about 300 narrow, steep stairs in a very narrow passage. 

We walked 420 stairs and 3/4 of a mile. Most of was through the dry cave, meaning it had no water or formations. Near the end was Frozen Niagra, a whole bunch of formations packed into a small area. Looking up at the ceiling, a spring dropping through the cave, cave crickets near the mouth of the cave. This cute little beetle walked across the picnic table where we had lunch. I saw the toad the other day. There are fish in the cave that have no eyes or color, they live in the dark and don't need them. 

Jaw like formation and I ran into this deranged guy at the end of the line. 

Coming out of the cave. The bats in the cave have white nose syndrome which they don't want to spread to other caves so they have us walk through a solution of woolite and water on the out. Cleansing our soles. . . John got me as a jr spelunker.