Saturday, September 20, 2008

Mammoth Cave National Park, KY

Here we are in Mammoth Cave National Park (http://www.nps.gov/maca/ ) camping at Diamond Cave RV Resort which is a "not so bad" RV place. I still wonder where in the world people come up with the nerve to call some places a "resort" though! A swimming pool, hot tub and saunas that don't work do NOT warrant the "resort" title in my opinion. HA!

We ended up here because we were running from Hurricane Ike. When I saw it was headed towards the Indiana & Michigan area we fueled up and headed south! All we got here in KY was some wind blowing about 35-35 MPH so it wasn't too bad.

We did take a short tour of Mammoth Cave. They had several walking tours available. One was about 1/4 mile in a section of one cave and the next choice was a FOUR mile walk through the cave. Yikes! That's quite a jump! Guess which one we took? Yep! The 1/4 mile "Niagra Falls" tour. That was just right :) Here are some pictures:




We'll be here for 2 weeks because we only have to pay $10 a night! That's right! We finally found a camping membership that didn't cost $1000's of dollars. I bought one off Ebay for less than $400 a YEAR and it allows us to stay at Coast to Coast and RPI campgrounds for 7 days at $10 a night. I figure that'll save us around $400 - $500 a month :) Sweet!


Our next stop will be to stay at our "home park" in Crossville, TN for a week (maybe 2 weeks) for $2 a night! We haven't been there yet, so we'll see how we like it. If it sucks ( I know it only has 30 amp service and I like 50 amp so everything works) we'll move on to Bluff City, TN to visit our son, Justin, for awhile.


Cheers! Don't forget to tell your friends about Ameriplan if they're looking for a great discount dental plan.