Over the long weekend, Judy and I visited our future home site, and marked precisely where we wanted our new home to be located on our property. It didn't take all that long to accomplish our main purpose for going on this trip, which left us time to visit with Grant Miller and Micah & Stephanie Spiracio, future neighbors. We borrowed a 4-wheeler (ATV) from Grant. I got the hang of driving it after a short while. Judy & I took the 4-wheeler on some of the timber roads above our property. I have to admit that it would be a blast to own one of these, so as to be able to get around on the back roads, of which there are so many in this area. We went to church on Sunday in Kimball, where we met Grant's brother, George Miller, also a future neighbor. George is presently in the midst of building his home inside the Sewanee Creek development. I posted a comment that explains the second photo.
While in Tennessee, we explored a couple of caves. Not far from where we were staying in Kimball, TN is
Russell Cave, run by the National Park Service. It is actually in Alabama, and more of an overhang used by early Indian dwellers than what one thinks of when thinking of a true cave. After visiting Russell Cave, we had enough time to go to
Raccoon Mountain Caverns near Chattanooga, and go through part of the extensive cave system there. Our tour, called the Crystal Palace Tour, lasted 45 minutes. For the more adventurous, there are wild cave tours that go much further into the cave. These, of course involve a fair amount of crawling, and getting through some pretty tight spaces, but it is apparently well worth the effort, for those fit and thin enough to do it.
On our return trip, we took a different route that took us through Huntsville, Decatur, and Moulton, AL, then through the William B. Bankhead National Forest (the largest forest in Alabama) to the town of Natural Bridge, AL, where we stopped and visited privately owned
Natural Bridge Park. The natural bridge formation within the park is the largest natural arch east of the Rockies. The owner wanted to make sure that we saw the American Indian stone formation that he claimed, "winks at the ladies" and "nods at the men." From Natural Bridge, we went directly south to Tuscaloosa and on home on I-59.
Over the long weekend, Judy and I visited our future home site, and marked precisely where we wanted our new home to be located on our property. It didn't take all that long to accomplish our main purpose for going on this trip, which left us time to visit with Grant Miller and Micah & Stephanie Spiracio, future neighbors. We borrowed a 4-wheeler (ATV) from Grant. I got the hang of driving it after a short while. Judy & I took the 4-wheeler on some of the timber roads above our property. I have to admit that it would be a blast to own one of these, so as to be able to get around on the back roads, of which there are so many in this area. We went to church on Sunday in Kimball, where we met Grant's brother, George Miller, also a future neighbor. George is presently in the midst of building his home inside the Sewanee Creek development. I posted a comment that explains the second photo.
While in Tennessee, we explored a couple of caves. Not far from where we were staying in Kimball, TN is Russell Cave, run by the National Park Service. It is actually in Alabama, and more of an overhang used by early Indian dwellers than what one thinks of when thinking of a true cave. After visiting Russell Cave, we had enough time to go to Raccoon Mountain Caverns near Chattanooga, and go through part of the extensive cave system there. Our tour, called the Crystal Palace Tour, lasted 45 minutes. For the more adventurous, there are wild cave tours that go much further into the cave. These, of course involve a fair amount of crawling, and getting through some pretty tight spaces, but it is apparently well worth the effort, for those fit and thin enough to do it.
On our return trip, we took a different route that took us through Huntsville, Decatur, and Moulton, AL, then through the William B. Bankhead National Forest (the largest forest in Alabama) to the town of Natural Bridge, AL, where we stopped and visited privately owned Natural Bridge Park. The natural bridge formation within the park is the largest natural arch east of the Rockies. The owner wanted to make sure that we saw the American Indian stone formation that he claimed, "winks at the ladies" and "nods at the men." From Natural Bridge, we went directly south to Tuscaloosa and on home on I-59.
3 comments:
Those are great pics! Looks like you had a fun (and successful) trip! We can't wait to check out some of the sites there - looks like there are tons of cool things to see! BTW our friend's parents live in the woods and they have a 4-wheeler - I can see how that would come in handy. :)
We had celebrities staying overnight at the Holiday Inn, "Billy the Exterminator" seen on the A&E Channel: http://www.aetv.com/billy-the-exterminator/index.jsp I took pictures of some of their fleet of vehicles, and went ahead and posted one on the blog. Some of the crew were having breakfast at the same time we did, but I didn't know enough about their show to know if I saw any of the actors.
Cool pix. I would love to visit those caves someday. Perhaps when we come to visit you after you move to TN. I would be in heaven to live off in the woods a bit.
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