For one of our Summer of Fun 2024 adventures, we stayed in a small cabin in West Tennessee. Here’s a look!
The front porch light gave off a welcoming glow, and there was a fire watchtower in the background. And the moon, too.
Now for the backstory. In the spring, Laura and I attended the Taste and Tunes fundraiser for Harding Academy. They gave away prizes, and one of the prizes was a 2-night stay at Serendipity near Brownsville, Tennessee. And we won the drawing! So we picked a time that worked for us, which ended up being in early August. We had a nice, small cabin to ourselves, and it was good.
Continuing with our Mammoth Cave National Park tour where the previous post left off…
About halfway through the tour, we came to a large area with benches. There, we sat to rest for a few moments while the ranger guide told about some of the history of the cave. This was also the portion of the tour where all of the lights were turned off to demonstrate total darkness. I did not bother taking a photo of that, however. And the glow-in-the-dark shirt of the guy in front of me kind of ruined the darkness a little. After that, we moved on to the dripstones portion of the tour, and these photos will move on to that as well.
As you may recall, we visited Mammoth Cave National Park as part of the Summer of Fun 2024. We enjoyed it so much that we went back for a second visit.
Because Mammoth Cave is so large, deserving its “mammoth” name, there are several different tours available. So for our second visit, we decided to take a different tour from the Historic Tour of our first visit. The Domes and Dripstones tour sounded interesting, partly because we did not see many dripstones in the first tour, and those are common in many caves around the world. Plus, the length and difficulty level were about the same as the Historic Tour, so we knew that we could do it. We made sure to have a reservation before we went, just to be sure that we got to go on the tour that we wanted.
Looking at Cocoa Beach, Florida, from out in the water at Lori Wilson Park on a beautiful day.
Sometimes it is good to get a different view of things. I have lots of photos of the ocean from standing on the beach. But I do not have as many photos of the beach from standing in the ocean. I do take photos like this from time to time, but not all that often.
The boat dock at the Polynesian Village Resort at Walt Disney World stands between the sandy beach and a cloud-filled sky.
Whenever we are at the Polynesian Village Resort, we look forward to some time to sit in a swing on the beach and enjoy the view. No, we do not stay at the resort, we just drop by when we are in the area.
The view from walking out to the beach at Lori Wilson Park in Cocoa Beach, Florida This view is always a favorite of mine. Except when I am looking back over my shoulder as we are leaving the beach. Then the view is not quite as nice. But even then, the view is a reminder of a good day at the beach.
During our stop at the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park near Hodgenville, Kentucky, we took some time to go inside the Visitor Center. It had a few interesting items on display and a small gift shop. And air conditioning, which was much appreciated on the day of our visit.
Yes, although this post is titled Inside the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace Visitor Center, this photo was actually taken outside, because that is where the sign was located. We did not spend too much time looking at the exhibits because we had arrived late in the day and wanted to have enough time to see everything, but we did look around for a few minutes.
On a trip through Kentucky, we visited Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park south of Hodgenville to see where our 16th president was born.
The Abraham Lincoln Birthplace features a log cabin inside a marble Memorial Building on the site of the farm where Lincoln was born. The structure is on top of a hill, which makes it look even more imposing. While perhaps not quite as large as the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, this site was actually built first, leading to its alternate name of The First Lincoln Memorial.
As we were traveling through Kentucky with the Riedels, we spent an afternoon at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green. Why is the Corvette Museum in Kentucky, you might ask? Because it is right across the street from the plant where all the Corvettes are made.
As you might guess, the National Corvette Museum is full of Corvettes, and a few other cars, too. Yes, I did take photos of just about every car in the museum. No, I probably will not share every single one of them. But in this first post, here are a couple of highlights.
We visited Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky and went on a cave tour. We were traveling through Kentucky on our way home from Indiana with the Riedels, and stopping at a National Park seemed like a great idea to everyone. Here are a few scenes from our tour.
Did you really visit a National Park if you did not take a park sign photo to prove that you were there? Yes you did, but I took a photo anyway.1
