Most Recent Travels…are at the Top! The rest is history.
And first camping in West Virginia Camping in Little Beaver State Park for 5 nights, giving us 4 days to (drive a lot, north & south, and)… Visit and hike (~17 miles) in 3 new National Park Sites: Off for the Charleston area of West Virginia PREVIOUS Traveling Where Now? Read more
America’s 1st “Gateway to the West”! Where we both walked in the footsteps of Daniel Boone along the Wilderness Road and over the Cumberland Gap. We also hiked up to the peak where Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia borders meet. And we camped in our 11th National Park Campground! That’s 3 Read more
And 10th National Park Campground Camping! Four nights camping within the Cumberland Plateau region of Tennessee and Kentucky, characterized by deep gorges cut into sandstone by rivers. Which meant, among other things, that it was “fun” driving here, especially getting here with Lizzy…up and down and around. We came down Read more
For 2026, anyway We had a very pleasant “chore day” (5K service for The Monster, LOTS of laundry, scrubbed the floor in Lizzy, and started planning our last 2026 trip (Hawai’i!) Yesterday, we drove to Nancy, Kentucky for a… Visit to 1 new National Park Site: Zagging farther south, back Read more
Camping on the Kentucky River Where we spent our last day just hanging out on the Kentucky River, after taking a day trip into Lexington, and a day trip to… Visit 1 new National Park Site: Camp Nelson National Monument (#320), which was established by The US Army as a Read more
For Lincoln’s Kentucky Years (& another cave) We drove only 15 miles from our campsite at Mammoth Cave to get to Horse Cave, Kentucky, but it did put us in better position for our… Visits to 1 new National Park Site: Other Visits in the Area Straddling the CDT / Read more
First Camping-in / 1st National Park visited in Kentucky This 4 day stop was all and only about… Visiting 1 new National Park …Mammoth Cave National Park (#318) The world’s longest known cave system, featuring over 426 miles of surveyed and mapped passageways. As a massive, multi-level limestone labyrinth, exploration continues, with Read more
Home Town of Wilma Rudolph Which we learned when we arrived. Also, it is the 5th largest city in Tennessee. We stopped here to… Visit 1 new National Park Site: Visits to other parks: We also visited a State Historic Park & National Recreation Area (not NPS): And a visit Read more
No live music or SEC playoff games for us, though Just lots of history, including musical history. We spent our first afternoon (after arriving early, visiting the Hermitage, spent the next day in Murfreesboro, and then 3 days visiting in Nashville, where downtown was CRAZY! LOTS of college basketball fans Read more
Three Lazy Days for our 1st Stop in Tennessee We’ve enjoyed visiting Chattanooga twice before, both times scurrying to see all that we could see. Not so much, this trip. Lots of time “just hanging out” and a Cave Tour at Racoon Mountain Caverns and Campground, where we’re camped. And Read more