Go West, young man! (and visit the caves)

It was finally time to start out journey back to the other side of the country. Our original plan was to go south to Monticello and see Thomas Jeffersons place and down to Memphis to visit Graceland. Unfortunately we spent too much time going East so we needed to shorten our itinerary on the way back.

Our first stop was at the Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky.  Mammoth Caves is the largest cave system in the world. To see the cave you have to make reservations for one of the many tours provided by the park service. The short and less strenuous tours were already booked by the time we were looking at the different tours. We ended up on the  Drips and Domes tour which was a 2 hour tour with lots of climbing and wedging through tight spaces. It was a great experience, a nice contrast to all the museums from the days before.