A cave tour with the only source of light being our gas lantern’s flame. It was our 3rd tour of the day but it was the most unique. We entered the cave at dusk with about 10 lanterns. So we experienced the cave just like they did a hundred years ago by candlelight! Then the …
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Winter Mowing (DeanoFarms: Week 91)
I needed to do my winter mow while the wildlife was tucked away for the winter. I’d left a few brush pile messes around the place earlier in the summer that I needed to clean up. So, I cleaned up my messes and finished mowing everything on a nice winter weekend. Winter mowing is certainly …
Mammoth Cave NP – River Styx Tour & Historic Tour (Extended)
A lot of the River Styx Tour follows the more popular Historic Tour route but it is a very different tour. I liked it much better than the Historic Tour. You get to go to the deepest part of Mammoth Cave (down to the River Styx and Echo Lake). The River Styx tour also was …
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Great Onyx Lantern Tour @ Mammoth Cave NP
We started our tours at Mammoth Cave NP with the Great Onyx Lantern Tour. This cave system is not part of Mammoth Cave system but is part of the national park. After a short (and pretty wild) bus ride we were assigned lanterns and entered the cave. It was a nice mix of cave geology …
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Winter Farm Chores (DeanoFarms: Week 89)
Tennessee was getting ready to have some icy winter weather roll in. I got out to the farm to get hunkered down in preparation for freezing temperatures. While I was there I did some tree cleanup. I did all this while wearing my grandfather’s old insulated coveralls. [wipes tear from eye] Then once the weather …
6 Tours In Mammoth Cave National Park
I’d been to Mammoth Cave National Park before. Like many places I’ve been previously I didn’t ‘finish it’. It is the completionist in me! So I planned multiple days with 6 tours and 12 miles of underground hiking. After 16 hours of underground tours, I’m marking this National Park done. CHECK!
Planting Trees (DeanoFarms: Week 80)
I planted a sapling (oak) and a seed (walnut). We’ll see if they make it. If they do they can join alongside their big brothers/sisters for the next 100 years.
NASCAR Cup Race – Nashville Superspeedway
It had been over 10 years since we’d been to a NASCAR Cup race. Now that NashVegas has a Cup Race at Nashville Superspeedway it made sense to Get ‘Er Done! It was hot! It was also fun as crap! Few things are as entertaining as a NASCAR opening ceremony and the first few laps …
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Disney’s Epcot
We’d not been to DisneyWorld’s Epcot in a long time. I found myself saying “I ain’t ever done this before” a lot. Several new rides and a bunch of things that I’d simply never seen/done before. Some of it was because it was new/different. Some were because we weren’t chasing kids around. Epcot as an …
Silver Springs State Park
We visited Emmaline in Orlando and headed to Florida’s first tourist attraction, Silver Springs State Park. It is home to the largest artesian spring in the northern hemisphere (Mammoth Springs) and some of the clearest blue water you’ll see anywhere. We kayaked first and then took a glass-bottom boat tour. On the glass bottom boat …
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