After getting our passport stamped, we toured the grounds for a look back in time, and replicas of pioneer life.
With the tour of the Abe artifacts completed, we headed farther south, for a place we'd not heard of, Mammoth Cave National Park. The jokes on us... I think we're the only ones who've not heard of this place. It was very crowded, nearly as bad as Carlsbad. The opening pic:
There was a short walk thru explaining how the caves were formed, when found, etc. There was also a guided tour, but it was a ways out, so we didn't participate, electing instead to get a head start to our next destination. We did stop for a snack and a couple of snapshots of the hills.
Yeah, one of the few pics you'll ever see of me.
From here, we were headed for the end of the Natchez Trace. However, there was a bridge being rebuilt on the northern end, so we entered the Trace at the Meriwether-Lewis Visitor Center near Hohenwald, TN. But, the VC was closed, so we did not get a passport stamp there. Nor did we get a stamp at the Colbert Ferry Station in Alabama. It appeared to have been discontinued. The day was fast closing, so we exited the Trace to spend the night in Muscle Shoals, AL. Not long after we got settled, it began raining. Good timing.
Miles for the day, 488.
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