After a rendezvous at Louisville, we dropped down to Elizabethtown to spend the night. While there, we collected groceries and other supplies. Early in the morning we headed south the Cave City and then in to the Mammoth Cave National Park to camp. We had two days to complete two separate tours of the cave…

Although not originally in our plans for this trip, we had some time left over in our schedule — largely as a result of weather snowing, raining, blowing, or freezing us out of other locations, so we decided to head east and visit Mammoth Cave, the Great Smokey Mountains and Shenandoah. We had been to…

Having followed the Parkway along the Natchez Trace from Natchez through to Tupelo, we skipped out to the main highways and continued north into Kentucky to see the Mammoth Cave National Park. We took several cave tours and explored the cave system — we considered the ‘Wild Cave Tour’ but did not have enough time…