Day 3 - Columbus to Cave City, Kentucky
We always do some touring when on a big road trip. So we are here for two nights to visit the Mammoth Cave National Park. I was thinking of maybe visiting Dollywood but Norm said that as it is an amusement park. So that is not what I had in mind. So it is the caves. We are going spend tomorrow touring the park and hopefully get in on the guided tours. It sounds really interesting.
We had sunny skies on our drive today. The interstate driving was pretty heavy and we were stuck in traffic for about 40 minutes and we could not see a reason why we were all sitting there crawling bit by bit or just at a dead stop. There roads are congested. Most times there are more trucks than cars. We did get off on a sort of bypass and we saw a train engine pulling 5 tanker cars. That was the whole train, a mini train. It passed us, we passed it and we were on parallel road and rail line, side by side. It was probably a hasmat train, as there were no other cars and it was driving at 60 km/ I had caught up with it and then did the same speed as the train. Anyways that is my guess.
Then we stopped at a rest stop and had lunch and it was very pretty there aside from the fact that there was only the highway noise. We turned back onto the interstate 71 then to 65 and arrived in Cave City Kentucky late this afternoon. This is a small city and I have been looking at the birds and so far only American Robins and lots of them.
I am getting the feeling that this is a HOHUM blog and I am bored just writing it. Long distance travel by car is a lot of highways and trucks and maps and GPS. One has to just relax a bit and just go with the traffic. Moving along, sometimes fast and sometimes just following a car. That's it. But I write a blog so it will jog my memory of the day. Be it a journey or a special sweet moment. Good and bad, whatever. So I apologize on the boredom-producing script.
We had sunny skies on our drive today. The interstate driving was pretty heavy and we were stuck in traffic for about 40 minutes and we could not see a reason why we were all sitting there crawling bit by bit or just at a dead stop. There roads are congested. Most times there are more trucks than cars. We did get off on a sort of bypass and we saw a train engine pulling 5 tanker cars. That was the whole train, a mini train. It passed us, we passed it and we were on parallel road and rail line, side by side. It was probably a hasmat train, as there were no other cars and it was driving at 60 km/ I had caught up with it and then did the same speed as the train. Anyways that is my guess.
Then we stopped at a rest stop and had lunch and it was very pretty there aside from the fact that there was only the highway noise. We turned back onto the interstate 71 then to 65 and arrived in Cave City Kentucky late this afternoon. This is a small city and I have been looking at the birds and so far only American Robins and lots of them.
I am getting the feeling that this is a HOHUM blog and I am bored just writing it. Long distance travel by car is a lot of highways and trucks and maps and GPS. One has to just relax a bit and just go with the traffic. Moving along, sometimes fast and sometimes just following a car. That's it. But I write a blog so it will jog my memory of the day. Be it a journey or a special sweet moment. Good and bad, whatever. So I apologize on the boredom-producing script.
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