Kentucky into Indiana; Temp: Hot: upper 80s.

We found this awesome cave outside of Camp Carlson in KY. Kentucky must have a lot of caves. Christian took all of these wonderful photos this time!! :)



Heading out of Kentucky we drive through Louisville and cross over the Ohio River which is the boundary of Kentucky and Indiana. Once we get into Indiana we pass miles and miles of corn fields! WOW! It was beautiful!
Below the photos of the corn fields is Camp Atterbury where we stayed 2 nights. This was on a military base as well in Indiana.

Kentucky

We traveled from Mammoth Cave to Camp Carlson in northern Kentucky. We stayed here 3 nights. Here are our photos of this military campground. It was a nice campground.

One of the children's favorite spots was a huge field made available for throwing frisbees, a football, baseballs and a badmitton net! This area also had a playground. It was perfect for the children.We also went on the military base, Fort Knox. Below is a photo of the gold vault located on base. However, it was interesting to us that the vault is right off of the main highway and in full view of the highway.Also on base we visited General Patton's Museum. A VERY interesting, large and FREE museum!The museum also had this portion of the Berlin Wall. It was fascinating to be able to touch this once dividing line between Germany's East and West.

While exploring the campground one day, Hunter and Christian found a cave with a creek flowing out of it. So we all rode back on our bikes to see this cave and the tall rock mountain that towered behind it. The cave was closed off due to the endangered Gray Bats the park wants to protect. The water was cold, prrobably around 45 degrees, and crystal clear.

Kentucky

Since most of our time in Tennessee was visiting family we do not have lots of great landscape photos to share, so we thought we would go ahead and post our visit in Kentucky.

These are our first sights of Kentucky. We saw several miles of corn fields too.

We drove in from Nashville and headed straight for Mammoth Cave. We knew ahead of time that we might not go into the cave and that we would make that decision when we arrived.

Sure enough we decided to not go in, but really enjoyed the area, the gift shop, great books and photos in the visitors center.

We walked the trail down to the cave. As we walked down the hill to the entrance there was a tremendous drop in temperature. We were in 95 degree weather and as we descended down the hill our feet felt as though we had suddenly stepped into an air conditioned area. Then as we took another step or two we felt the cool, approximately 65 degree temperatures, all over! It was amazing!

We will try to update more photos very soon. We have been delayed in updating due to lack of sufficient internet service for 4 days in KY.

Below is a photo explaining the airflow in and around the cave. The last photo is of the mountain above the cave with a small waterfall.

Tennessee

As we headed in on Friday we saw these turkeys and deer in front of neighborhood homes!! There were 4 baby deer frolicking around in the yard as if there was no danger being so close to humans.

Heading Out

We won't bore you with all the long and tense details of the house,

but will get right to the good news that we close soon and all is working out now.

We have left for our journey and we are
currently in Tennessee visiting family on our way northwest.

The photos above are of us leaving
home and traveling through beautiful northern South Carolina and western North Carolina.
The photo of the pool and sunrise is at a campground in Knoxville, TN.
We stayed there for one night on our way out. The pool was great!

The sunrise photos are ones Hunter took at 6:20 in the morning for an hour!
Christian took some great photos of our trip heading out and traveling through N.Carolina!
Check back soon. We'll have photos of KY!!