We drove from Bardstown, Kentucky to Nolin
Lake State Park near Mammoth Cave National Park this past Wednesday. Just south
of Bardstown, we stopped to see the childhood home of Abraham Lincoln called
Knob Creek.
The roads to the state park are in Southwestern
Kentucky were very hilly, narrow and curvy but we made it okay. The state park
campground was nice and roomy with great views of Nolin Lake.
Yesterday we went out with Vince & Lisa
for lunch, followed by a drive to Mammoth Cave National Park. All visits to
inside Mammoth Cave are guided tours by park rangers. We decided to sign up for
the Historic Tour, a 2-hour, 2-mile tour inside the original opening to the cave.
Mammoth Cave was discovered by Native
Americans about 4,000 years ago. Legend has it that the first European to
discover Mammoth Cave was either John Houchin or his brother Francis Houchin,
in 1797.
Mammoth Cave was designated a National Park
on July 1, 1941. It is the world’s longest known cave system with 412-miles of
surveyed passageways. New discoveries and connections add several miles to this
figure each year.
We left Nolin Lake State
Park this morning and drove about an hour to Bowling Green, Kentucky to visit
the National Corvette Museum. They had a nice big parking lot for RVs and
buses.
The National Corvette
Museum was well worth a trip. The first Corvette was built on June 30, 1953,
nearly 65-years ago, and only 300 were built. Most of the Corvettes on display
are on loan to the museum by private owners.
We enjoyed lunch at the
Corvette Café with Vince & Lisa. Then we said our goodbyes after lunch as
we are heading south to Texas and Vince & Lisa are slowly heading back
towards Colorado.
Steve & Julie
Cornelius
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