Kentucky Backwoods 2
Traffic Jam on Ugly Creek Road Ugly Creek Road is far from the sketchiest byway I’ve navigated in my travels, but it does offer enough soft spots, washouts and creek fords to merit close attention and switching Peggy (my 3/4 ton Ram pickup) into 4 wheel drive. The key to the geology of Mammoth Cave […]
Kentucky Backwoods 1
This is a short series of posts about things discovered along the way. I came to central Kentucky to visit Mammoth Cave National Park, and spent a week in the area North of the park but only a day in the cave. This is the part of traveling America I like best – the unplanned […]
Below the Surface
With more legal paperwork complete and the camper freshly repaired, I turned north to the hills of central Kentucky. The plan was to escape the summer heat and thunderstorms that had come to the South by going underground at Mammoth Cave National Park. Typical of US National Parks, Mammoth Cave offers really nice tent camping […]