Trail to Nowhere :(
Sunday 9/7/14 Nolin Lake state Park. KY
On our travels to our current location we went from Eastern Standard
Time to now Central Time Zone. This time
change is fine except I got all confused this morning when I was ½ awake and
thought it was 7:30am. So I got up,
dressed, brushed teeth, and so on before I realized it was 6:30am!!!
Geesh! Oh well, I was up so I started
writing the remainder of Fridays journal entry and then Saturdays. Being we have no cell service thus no
internet I have to write the journal in Microsoft Word and then transfer it to
the Journal when we drive somewhere with cell signal. Jami was up at 8:30am and cooked a great
breakfast of sausage & scrambled eggs with toast. Once we finished eating we were off to go
hiking by 10am. Jami found what looked
to be a nice trail to a water fall in Mammoth Cave National Park, so we drove
the 20 minutes to the trail head. Once
there we took a quick drive down a narrow gravel road to an old church that was
established in 1842 with a cemetery behind it.
A lot of the tomb stones that were readable had dates of people that
passed away in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.
After that side trip we were off hiking to a waterfall. We had a map so we knew exactly which trails
to take to get there. Being we’re not on
speaking terms with the GPS at the moment we went “old school” and used a map J ((Thought), I wonder if today’s younger
generation even know how to read a map?)
1st trail which we estimated was about 1 mile was “Buffalo
Trail” which was a very wide trail that looked like park service personnel
drive vehicles down when needed.
Once we
reached our turn at the 2nd trail “Turnhole Bend Trail” we hung a
right off the wide trail to a narrower and much more scenic trail that we
figured was about ¾ of a mile to our next turn onto “Spring Loop Trail”.
We reached “Spring Loop Trail” and turned
left per the map and continued on. It
looked to be about another ¼ mile hike to the falls. Well, the “Falls” were nowhere to be
found. We planned to hike 2 miles to the
Falls then 2 mile back. We ended up
hiking 3.5 miles to just turn around and hike back. Yep, our planned 4 mile hike turned into
7. That was a bummer. But not all was lost, we did get to see the
rear of a deer as it was hopping away from us. J Geesh!
If you don’t already know, we almost always
have Jemma (our dog) with us and today was no different. Jemma, who is a French Bulldog actually made
the 7 mile hike!! She’ll sleep good
tonight. Once back to our truck we
decided to drive over to the Mammoth Caves Visitor center to see what the cave
tour schedules are and to purchase tickets for tomorrow’s tour. The shortest way there involves a very small
ferry crossing. The ferry can carry at
best 3 small vehicles, and of course on our first ride across it was a full
boat, 3 cars J
Once at the visitor center we spoke with a park ranger who
recommended we take the “Historic” tour.
So we got in line and purchased our tickets for that tour which starts at
10am and ends at 12 so we also purchased tickets for a 2nd tour “Frozen
Niagara” that starts at 1pm and ends at 2:30pm.
This should be so much fun!! We
headed back home which included the ferry crossing and stopping to get gas. Being we had cell service at the gas station
we hung out there for a bit to upload yesterday’s journal entry. Once we got home Jami made us some delicious
spaghetti with sausage in the sauce for dinner.
Yum Yum!
We got showers and sat out by a nice camp fire. OH!! I
must thank Ken (Jami’s step-father) for giving us a truck load of wood. We love having camp fires, but I’m to cheep
to buy wood J So THANK YOU KEN!!
Yep, That's Jemma in the chair resting from todays long hike :)
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