Left Nashville yesterday late morning and drove north towards Lexington. On the way, I realized I was passing within about 10 miles of Mammoth Cave National Park, which I had never been to, so of course I went and took a tour. It's the longest cave in the known universe at well over 300 miles of surveyed passage. But the tour I took only shows you about 1 mile. It's a water-flow cave and as such is less decorated than the caves in the Guads, and a 1 mile sampling doesn't really give you the sense of how huge the cave system is. It was sort of a let down, but I did get a cool early map poster.

Arrived at cousin Rebecca's place in Lexington without incident (other than the "holy krikey it's hot" incident). Met her new husband, Chad, who is an ultimate player and great to talk with. He gets the Mouser Stamp of Approval. As does Rebecca, but this was somewhat of a given as I already knew her.

I learned that a corn oyster is a bread product, a mater is a fruit, and that the proper pronunciation of Versailles is "ver-SAILS."

Now they're off to build a house for Habitat for Humanity and I'm off to find the top of Kentucky. Next stop: unknown. The stop after that: Charlotte.