One carload of the college campers decided to call it quits and headed back to Gainesville, but Dale and I took their place in the second cave. The cave opening didn’t look that difficult, but it turned out to be a rock crawl for the first 50 feet. (That’s Dale in the blue shirt, white … Continue reading →

Kyle and Kelly and their friends started a nice camp fire, which is a good thing because it dropped below freezing. Somebody brought sparklers! It was cold outside and they were all camping. We offered that if anybody got too cold, they were welcome to sleep in the RV. Kelly took us up on the … Continue reading →

Next, we hiked up to the top of a giant sinkhole. Kyle and a couple friends had previously rappelled down into this and made a movie of that adventure. This is about where Kyle had rappelled down. Kelly went around to the other side with some of her friends. That’s about a 200 foot drop! … Continue reading →

After caving, we all went for a drive to a giant sinkhole, but along the way we came upon a menagerie of animals made out of boulders. Kyle liked the giant chicken. I picked the rock turtle. Dale liked the calf. And Kelly went for the bucking bull! The real cows across the road thought … Continue reading →

We got the RV set up by the cave and grabbed our flashlights to go see if we could find Kyle and Kelly and their friends in the cave. Dale was ready to go. We went into the cave about 100 feet and bumped into one of the cave caretakers coming out. He told us … Continue reading →

We dropped off the RV in Scottsboro, Alabama, and drove the Jeep into the backcountry to find Kyle and Kelly and their caving friends. Kelly texted us GPS coordinates. On the way, most of the farm fields were picked cotton, but we found a couple that hadn’t yet been harvested. Further up the road we … Continue reading →

We crossed the border from Tennessee into Alabama and the first thing we came to was “Big Daddy’s Hunting Supply Store.” it was a real culture shock! They had guns for everything: assault rifles, shotguns and even kid-sized rifles painted pink for little girls! Weird. They had stuffed trophies everywhere and I’m not lion.