| Day 5 - Travel To Mammoth Cave, KY Tough travel day 383 miles consumes over ten hours with the lunch stop and a stop for food shopping. The time zone change does not help, we decide to stay on eastern time which led to some pretty interesting conversations regarding the schedule. "Now what time to we get up for caving?" "Is that eastern, central or watch time?" We eventually figured it all out and made all the necessary adjustments and remained on "watch time". |
| Day 6 - Mammoth Cave National Park, KY Even on "watch time" we had time for a quick Scrabble game before our scheduled 4 hour tour. Mammoth Cave is the world's longest recorded cave system with more than 365 miles mapped. The nearest competitor is 120 miles in Russia. They think that Mammoth will eventually reach over 1,000 miles once completely explored. Our tour, led by NPS guides lasted 4 hours. We encountered bats, cave crickets, cave beetles, and tight belly crawls. |
