We flew to Tennessee to pick up our motor home and Jeep stored at Cousin Janice and Roy’s place during the winter. Our first stop out found us at Mammoth Caves National Park in Kentucky. Two underground tours with a 300-500ft elevation change down and up 940 steep cave stairs for three miles was quiet an adventure. Whew, did some upper thigh muscles ever burn afterwards for several days.
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| This was just one of numerous stairwells we climbed in the cave. |
We discovered Abe Lincoln’s birthplace cabin and boyhood homesteads as well in Kentucky.
In West Virginia we were caught in a heavy snow storm at the 2780 ft elevation level. While JR was attempting to pass a big rig truck in the snow a woman driver tagged the left rear corner of our Jeep causing a dent to the bumper plus damage to the tail light and license plate. Thankfully no one was hurt in the poor road conditions. Drivers coming off side entrances along busy highways are often impatient trying to speed up to get around us, so twice we’ve almost been side swiped.
Arriving in Virginia we visited Woodrow Wilson’s Presidential Library, Museum, and Birthplace in Staunton on a private tour.
Took in the New Market Civil War National Historic Site (NHS) and Harper’s Ferry NHP where John Brown the abolitionist and twenty-one men did a raid on the Federal Arsenal in 1859.
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| Christa chats with a Union officer at Harpers Ferry |
Monday April 4 we survived the interstate lane changes getting in to Washington, D.C. and are settled in at Cherry Hill RV Park for the next 15 days to see the attractions in our nation’s capitol.
We flew to Tennessee to pick up our motor home and Jeep stored at Cousin Janice and Roy’s place during the winter. Our first stop out found us at Mammoth Caves National Park in Kentucky. Two underground tours with a 300-500ft elevation change down and up 940 steep cave stairs for three miles was quiet an adventure. Whew, did some upper thigh muscles ever burn afterwards for several days. 
