Home sweet home at Mammoth Cave National Park

Just couldn't resist a short post today.  We really were headed for Louisville to overnight in a Walmart parking lot... but pulled off to check out the Mammoth Cave National Park.  For only $8.50 (gotta love the 

Golden Age pass for national parks / half-price), we could stay the night - no hook up.  Let's see...  Walmart or this setting?  That decision took less than two seconds.  We stopped early enough to check out the visitor center, possible tours into the caverns, which now total 390 miles of discovery, and enjoyed this great fire before dark.  This will definitely be a return trip next fall after daughter Sara's wedding in October before we head elsewhere.  

I must say we are traveling now at a much slower pace than ever before, and neither one of us are struggling with the concept of "snail's pace."

Jerry wanted to let you all know he's been looking at RV's again...  This is the camouflage model.  You can imagine my response.

Speaking of other Rv's - my brother, who is the keeper of old slides and movies from our father's years as an amateur photographer sent me this picture (below) before we started traveling.  I was unaware that when my brothers were very little, and before I was born, our parents traveled in this travel trailer.  This photo is of one of their trips to the Grand Canyon.  The entrance to the GC is much different now, for sure.  Evidently, I have this RV / nomad-ism in my blood. When we go to the Grand Canyon next spring, I plan to take a picture of our Whale at the entrance and post them side by side.