Caves always offer cool temperatures and that's a wonderful thing in the Midwest just now where the heat and humidity will suck out your life through every pore. Inside the cave, the temperature is cool enough you may want a jacket and, at fifty-six degrees or so, you will almost certainly want one.
Mammoth Cave is one of the biggest cave systems in the world and there are probably places other than Kentucky to enter the system but that's the best-known and Cadillac Man plus hiking entourage will go there soon. His crew has some who will sit it out and others who will embark on a tour of about two hours which is said to reveal magnificent visions with all the drama of "A Journey to the Center of the Earth."
It doesn't seem Mammoth Cave is known for bats while Carlsbad Cavern has, oh, a billion or so. Maybe it's climate and bats don't like Kentucky where they would be going out to try to find skeeters in the Winter and that's a problem because it's too cold for skeeters in the Winter time. Although the cold sucks, it sure wipes out bugs in the North in the Winter.
(Ed: that's great. They just come inside!)
Not to worry. Order some K-Tel robo drone bugs from Amazon and then you can have robobugs hunting real bugs to keep your house clear of invading six-leggers and eight-leggers. Order today and get the robobug six-pack for greater savings.
(Ed: I just exchange one bug for another and the robobug needs batteries!)
Well, there is that.
This is more on the theme of What Can You Do When You're Gassed as we still want to do things because television hasn't done it for any of us for years. The dream dates are hikes which aren't too physical because a man's got to know his limitations.
(Ed: you stole that from Dirty Harry!)
Yep, and shamelessly too.
For my own set, what's possible looks like it's been a bit ambitious as the ability to do it is under test all the time. Going to market is a test of a fair amount of low-impact walking. Carrying things in from the car is a stamina test but high temperatures confound results when heat alone can drain you. The test is also flawed because Man Rules require every bag from the market has to be carried at once even when that leaves not much in the car. It has to be done this way because Man Rules.
(Ed: that's stupid!)
Yes but there was no judgment, only a statement of fact.
Note: it's not a Man Rule that the toilet seat must remain up. That's an Asshole Rule for someone who really doesn't care how long the relationship lasts.
(Ed: are you going to review Mammoth Cave or what?)
That's a negatory on that one, Deputy Dawg, as I've never been there ... but ...
Here's are full write-ups with maps as well at WIKI: Mammoth Cave National Park and National Park Service: A Grand, Gloomy and Peculiar Place.
Mammoth Cave is one of the biggest cave systems in the world and there are probably places other than Kentucky to enter the system but that's the best-known and Cadillac Man plus hiking entourage will go there soon. His crew has some who will sit it out and others who will embark on a tour of about two hours which is said to reveal magnificent visions with all the drama of "A Journey to the Center of the Earth."
It doesn't seem Mammoth Cave is known for bats while Carlsbad Cavern has, oh, a billion or so. Maybe it's climate and bats don't like Kentucky where they would be going out to try to find skeeters in the Winter and that's a problem because it's too cold for skeeters in the Winter time. Although the cold sucks, it sure wipes out bugs in the North in the Winter.
(Ed: that's great. They just come inside!)
Not to worry. Order some K-Tel robo drone bugs from Amazon and then you can have robobugs hunting real bugs to keep your house clear of invading six-leggers and eight-leggers. Order today and get the robobug six-pack for greater savings.
(Ed: I just exchange one bug for another and the robobug needs batteries!)
Well, there is that.
This is more on the theme of What Can You Do When You're Gassed as we still want to do things because television hasn't done it for any of us for years. The dream dates are hikes which aren't too physical because a man's got to know his limitations.
(Ed: you stole that from Dirty Harry!)
Yep, and shamelessly too.
For my own set, what's possible looks like it's been a bit ambitious as the ability to do it is under test all the time. Going to market is a test of a fair amount of low-impact walking. Carrying things in from the car is a stamina test but high temperatures confound results when heat alone can drain you. The test is also flawed because Man Rules require every bag from the market has to be carried at once even when that leaves not much in the car. It has to be done this way because Man Rules.
(Ed: that's stupid!)
Yes but there was no judgment, only a statement of fact.
Note: it's not a Man Rule that the toilet seat must remain up. That's an Asshole Rule for someone who really doesn't care how long the relationship lasts.
(Ed: are you going to review Mammoth Cave or what?)
That's a negatory on that one, Deputy Dawg, as I've never been there ... but ...
Here's are full write-ups with maps as well at WIKI: Mammoth Cave National Park and National Park Service: A Grand, Gloomy and Peculiar Place.
7 comments:
Best to go to the private cave side than the National Park entrance. The caves are cooler in both aspects.
Not many bats white nose is a very big problem but even before that there are no large colonies around here. Might be a food source issue during the cold months
Might want to add a stop to the Corvette museum and the new track they built in Bowling Green. Some really nice cars. It was rebuilt since the sinkhole disaster of several years ago
I couldn't make it for the Mammoth expedition but hopefully he will see it as I'm not sure he has gone yet.
Yah, that was my bat theory as well that they're aren't enough bat bugs up North in the Winter. That opens some new OCD possibilities and one screaming is where do northern bats go in the Winter.
Thanks to both of you for info, maps, tips on private caves and Corvette Museum. Won't be leaving for a couple weeks. I'll be leading a group of 4 adults and 4 children (7-12). Also, considering checking out early frontier village of Harrodsburg, KY and nearby Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill. The Shakers were a religious group dating to early 1800's similar to the Amish with a major difference. They required all members to lead a life of celibacy. Needless to say the group eventually literally died out of existence. The Village with buildings dating back to 1811 however remains and is maintained by a private non-secular organization that believes in propogation.
That sounds highly cool as Plimoth Plantation in MA is an outstanding recreation of the first settlement. Part of the attraction for me is how much those doing the reenactments love what they're doing. I'm sure there will be pictures, right! I think I've plugged the idea of a blog previously and it might be a cool way to present your travels with Charlie.
Hopefully, will get some good pictures. Will have to discuss the Travels with Charlie blog idea next time we Skype.
That would be excellent and I can tell you for sure a blog is easy. If it were as much hassle as the rest of the Internet, I wouldn't do it (larfs).
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