August 27 - September 5, 2025
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| On Wednesday, August 27 we drove into Indiana and stopped and Abraham Lincoln's National Memorial. |
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| Abraham Lincoln lived moved here from Kentucky at the age of seven, and lived here until he was 21. |
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| After two years in Indiana, Abraham's mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, died when he was about nine years old. She died of what was called 'milk sickness'. This occurs when cattle graze on white snakeroot, a shade-loving plant that contains tremetol, a poison to animals, and to humans who drink milk or eat meat from those animals. |
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Nancy Hanks Lincoln Tomb
After about a year Abraham's father, Thomas, went back to Kentucky and married Sarah Bush Johnston, a widow he had known for years. She brought her three children, ages 12, 8, and 5, a wagonload of furniture, and many books. She was a kind step-mother. |
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| Our stop for the next two nights was at Sycamore Springs Park in English, IN. We had full hookups for $34.24 per night. It was a beautiful park with lots of open space, ponds, and walking trails. I would recommend it and wish more campgrounds could be like this! |
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| This was the view from the door. |
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| The campground provided free firewood so we finally had a fire! |
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| You can't have a fire without s'mores! |
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| On Friday, August 29 we went into Kentucky. |
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| A former co-worker of John's lives in Shelbyville and we wanted to stop and see them. Then we realized it was Labor Day weekend and decided to stay at Elkhorn Creek RV Park in Frankfort, KY for four nights (there weren't any other options). It was full hookups for (sit down) $88.47 per night WITH the Good Sam discount. For that price they should offer at least free firewood and on site trash pickup. |
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I took these pictures on Friday before everyone started arriving for the weekend. The campground was packed, with every site taken. The campground was very nice and clean, but they squeezed three times as many sites as the last campground, and charged over twice the price.
We met with Jim and Kim on Saturday afternoon and had a nice time visiting. We went to church with them on Sunday morning, and then enjoyed lunch at Longhorn. I'm really glad we got to stop and see them. As usual we forgot to get a picture of the four of us!
The day we were to leave the door side slide wouldn't come in. John was able to fix it but it was noon (check-out time) before we got hooked up. I got a text from the campground at 12:09 reminding us that check-out was noon. They could see that we had a problem, we were out 5 minutes after noon, and I thought that was rude. |
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We went for a walk one evening and saw this tree. I guess this sign isn't going anywhere!
On Tuesday, September 2 we drove to Singing Hills RV Park and Campground in Cave City, KY for two nights. It was full hookups for $33.75 per night with Passport America discount. It was raining when we got there and raining when we left and we didn't get any pictures of the campground. It was a nice campground and not busy during the week. I would recommend it. |
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| Our purpose in going there was to go to Mammoth Caves. |
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We took the Frozen Niagara tour, which was 1-1/2 hours including the bus ride to the entrance, and an easy walk. We did have to watch our heads because there are some really low spots.
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Here are some pictures of the cave.
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| On the way out of the cave the ranger showed us the cave crickets. I didn't get any pictures; they're the same color as the cave and hard to see. They're all over the ceiling and it's good we didn't know about them until the end. I would have freaked if one fell on me! |
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On Thursday, September 4 we arrived at Spacious Skies Belle Ridge campground in Monterey, TN. It's full hookups for $37.87. It's a nice campground, but if you use a promo code make sure they charge the taxes and don't wait three days with an additional charge.
When we arrived John went to put out the slides and the other slide wouldn't go out. A gear broke and he was able to manually get the slide out partway and take out the gear. We called around some larger RV parts stores and no one had the gear. We finally called a small RV store and they had one. She said they keep one in stock. This was a God thing. He always takes care of us; praise Him! I'm so thankful that God has given John the ability to repair things like this. We would have been up the creek if he couldn't. He thinks that the RV place in Greensville where he took the trailer to have new seals put on the slides didn't put the slides in properly and that's why they were making such a racket and finally failed. But now they both work and tomorrow we'll be...
Roving on...
By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible. Hebrews 11:3 |
