Kentucky!

**Warning** Although I had a good night's sleep, I am a bit under the weather fighting a head, sinus, ear ache and cough.  So if I sound wonky, blame it on that.

Arriving at our campsite night before last (after leaving Tennessee and arriving in Kentucky) we discovered, much to our chagrin, that it did not have good internet or cell service.  It was too late to find somewhere new so Doug had to get up in the morning and COMMUTE to a McDonald's to work!  He found one with wifi AN HOUR AND A HALF away from camp.  We pretty much decided the minute that happened that it wasn't going to work, so our two week reservation was canceled and we packed it up to move on into THE GREAT UNKNOWN!

This morning we were at Nolin Lake, KY and we made our way down to Mammoth Cave.  Now, when they say "Mammoth" they aren't a'kiddin! It's over 400 miles of natural cave, mapped, surveyed, and preserved.  We explored about a mile of it on our easy cave tour "for those with small children."  I kind of wish we had a week to stay here, but sadly there isn't really anywhere to explore that isn't on a tour.

We did see quite a bit of wildlife at Mammoth Cave, or at least on the way there.  We saw two deer, a bunch of wild turkeys, a chipmunk, a bat, and a few squirrels.

Driving on, we went through Abraham Lincoln's birthplace and saw his cabin enshrined (literally) in a memorial built on a hilltop in 1911. It was kind of creepy.  I know he was a respected President whose life was tragically taken, but still, the memorial seems over the top for a President.

We ended up at My Kentucky Home State Park, named after Stephen Foster's Song.  It's a nice little campground with WIFI (yeah!) a fun play area for the kids, fireflies, and nice people so far.  Speaking of nice people we've met ALOT of them on our trip.  The nice ones far outweigh the nasty ones so far :)

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Blessings!
Stacy