Kentucky...

Mom & I are trying to do a long weekend trip once a year where we do some sort of walk. It all started because I need an excuse not to walk the 17-mile Syttende Mai walk in Stoughton every year. Last June we hiked up Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota and took in Mount Rushmore and Custer State Park on the quick trip. This year we wanted to go somewhere a little closer and where we hadn't been before. We settled on the Tri-State area of Kentucky, Tennesee, and Virginia. We took Grandma Trader along and stayed in a log cabin at Pine Mountain State Resort Park in Kentucky.



On the way we stopped at President Lincoln's boyhood home in Indiana where Lincoln's mother is also buried. This is the outline of the cabin that Lincoln grew up in. Some of the mantel rocks are original.




It was too hot to do any real long walking (hiking is more accurate) until Monday. Mom and I then took on two trails that proved to be one of a kind. At times we had to guess where the trail was, others we had to climb under or over trees and squeeze through rocks! Although a little primitive, it was a very beautiful area.





We also went to Cumberland Gap National Park where the boundaries of Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee are. The Gap is where Daniel Boone and others made their way West between the Appalachians (that's Ap-LATCH-ins). Another beautiful area.