Mammoth Cave

Cold morning, got down to 28 degrees.  Gotta get used to the cold all over again.  It’s supposed get down to 16 tonight.   And it feels like it.  Now that the engine has cooled, the afterburners no longer work, and the temperature is dropping fast.  We’ll probably use quite a bit of propane and battery power keeping the tanks from freezing and us from freezing tonight.

We got an early start and managed to put some miles behind us, making good progress unlike yesterday.  We broke up the monotony of interstate driving by stopping at Mammoth Cave National Park, arriving fairly early and early enough to take in the first run of one of the cave tours.  The Domes and Dripstones Tour is one of the more popular ones and one of the few offered early on a Sunday morning in the Winter.  734 steps from a sinkhole, going over 200 feet underground, going through domes and caverns and a dripstone section known as the Frozen Niagara. I would say not as breathtakingly beautiful as, say, the Carlsbad Caverns, but it was a memorable and fun trip and, again, a welcome diversion from the Interstate.

Rather difficult to take pictures here, lots of people jostling for the same picture and very low light, but it was cool to see.

We’re now in a Cracker Barrel parking lot south of Fort Wayne, Indiana.  We set ourselves up for a visit to Shipshewana tomorrow, kind of a tradition when returning from a road trip.

413 Miles covered today