We left Carter Caves shortly after Dusty on Easter Sunday. With all the kids gone, there was little to keep us there. We decided to head south to Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. The weather was shaping up pretty nasty out west toward home. We thought maybe we could get below much of it by going south. It worked this day. The weather was nice all the way to the park.
Cumberland Gap National Historical Park is a beautiful park. Being Easter, it was fairly empty so we had our choice of spots. We took one that looked the easiest to back into as we were only staying one night. Interestingly, many sites had huge stacks of firewood just waiting for the campers. It looked like large tree trunks had been brought in and dropped. Then a crew would cut them into firewood length and split and stack them. I don't know if that is a season-long service or if it is just from spring clean-up. Too bad we weren't staying long enough to take advantage of it. As it were, Ditto and I managed to walk the park enough to stir up other campers' dogs then we turned in for the night.
The next morning we studied the weather and decided there was no avoiding the inevitable. The storm front stretched from Arkansas to Ohio. To avoid it we would have to go to Mobile, across to Houston and come in the back door. We decided to meet it head on. Next stop would be Mammoth Cave National Park.
