Atlanta.
One usually thinks of the Deep South, Coca-Cola and boiled peanuts.
Rarely would someone compare any part of Atlanta to the Pacific Northwest.
However, I found a small piece of the Pacific Northwest less than 20 minutes from my home. (more…)
It was the last leg of our Mother-Daughter trip. We had spent one night in Louisville, one night in St. Louis and our third and final destination before going home was Memphis.
Two years prior to this trip, I had taken my other daughter, Thing 1, to a relative’s 90th birthday party in Memphis. On that trip, we spent one day at the family reunion and the other at the Memphis Zoo. Thing 2 also wanted to explore Memphis, but because we’d seen the St. Louis Zoo, she wanted to see something different from the zoo. (more…)
I had never been to Missouri. As Thing 2 and I planned out our mother-daughter trip, I said I wanted to visit one of the handful of states I’d never seen. Missouri was one of those states.
Forest Park (more…)
We started our Mother-Daughter trip by first going up to Louisville, KY. Since we were literally planning this trip two days beforehand, we had little time for extensive tourist research. I also have to say up front that I can’t find about half of the pictures we took.
We did notice Mammoth Cave National Park was on the way so we booked tickets for a guided cave tour. Again, I wanted to go there, but not actually go in a cave. Thing 2 convinced me otherwise. We bought our tickets online for the 1:00 Historic Cave Tour. The next morning we left Atlanta around 6 am so we’d get there about an hour before the tour began.
Mammoth Cave National Park
Gathering with the group outside the visitor center, the park rangers explained that parts of the tour could be claustrophobic. In actuality, it really wasn’t claustrophobic at all. They went into detail that there would be a few tight squeezes, but it was well-lit inside. Thing 2 and I stayed near the front of the 40 or so people. The other guide was trained to get people out of there if they had any problems. (more…)