Camping

 *I have tried to post this blog several times with pictures, but it doesn't seem to be working.  I'll try to add pictures again at a later time.*

We've been back for a week now, but it has been an incredibly busy week of meetings, work, and class. 

Our trip was good.  We went to Mammoth Cave, KY.  This turned out to be a great choice for many reasons.  First, we love visiting new places, and we had never been to Mammoth Cave.  Second, it was an hour and half away... great distance to be away from Nashville, but not too far that it's inconvenient.  And third, Mammoth Cave has hundreds of miles of hiking trails! 

So the actual cave is the longest known cave system in the world with well over 300 miles of underground caves in a 7 mile radius.  The park currently has 14 miles open for public tours.  Eric researched the various tours offered and chose a very nice looking tour he thought we would enjoy.  Little did we know, this place is quite popular and some tours were sold out days in advance.  So we joined the hundreds of other people making last-minute reservations and took one of the beginner tours that has space for 120 people and 6 time slots throughout the day.  And our tour did eventually sell-out.

We were pleasantly surprised with our tour and thoroughly enjoyed the 2 miles of cave we traveled.  Some places were very large while others were very small, tight, and slippery.  Mammoth Cave was formed by underground river, and is still being formed.  There were a couple places we could see waterfalls and others where we just got wet from dripping water overhead.  Unfortunately, with over 100 people following 1 guide, you just can't hold up the line to take pictures.  So we got what we could, and moved on!