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Carlsbadass Caverns, The Greatest Thing I’ve Ever Seen

Carlsbadass Caverns, The Greatest Thing I’ve Ever Seen

  • Day 44
  • 7359 miles
  • Carlsbad, MN
  • Oct 4, 2011

Drivng up to Carlsbad Caverns in the Guadeloupe mountains was beautiful in itself. When we took the self guided natural tour entrance, we had know idea how epically amazing this would be. Self guided tour, 4000 feet long, 625 feet wide and 350 feet high at it’s biggest. I want you to stop and think [...]

Tags: Cave, National Park, Natural Landmarks, Pictures, Ricky 0

Underground Disco Waterfall

Underground Disco Waterfall

  • Day 26
  • 4347 miles
  • Lookout Mountain, TN
  • Sep 16, 2011

Coming back from NC we drove through the great smokey mountains last night and this morning. We broke up the 6 hour drive into 2 shifts. The smokies are the biggest mountains on the east coast i believe, but their pebbles compared to what the west coast has to offer. Either way, they were the [...]

Tags: Cave, Natural Landmarks, Pictures, Ricky, Roadside Attraction 0

Kentucky’s Underworld

Kentucky’s Underworld

  • Day 22
  • 3520 miles
  • Mammoth Cave, KY
  • Sep 12, 2011

Under the limestone and sandstone hills of Kentucky is a world of caves. Caves full of history dating back to billions of years ago. This is my first real cave system (Brewster is tiny), and my the first stop on the road trip that I was beyond excited to see. Mammoth cave was easily in [...]

Tags: Cave, National Park, Pictures, Ricky 3

Outlaws

Outlaws

  • Day 21
  • 3392 miles
  • Cave-in-Rock, IL
  • Sep 11, 2011

Before we set off, I went into a TA truck stop to use one of their glorious showers. When I was done I walked by the truckers lounge and stopped in for some quick TV viewing. On the tube was the raw footage from the 9-11 attacks, edited chronologically. I was hypnotized and sat there [...]

Tags: Cave, Natural Landmarks, Pictures, Ricky 3

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