Wilderness Road Campground at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park had a quiet wooded site for us. Sites are first come, first served with a charge of $20 for electric or $14 without. Crossing the main highway into the town of Cumberland Gap, the park service had an informational trailhead with sculptures of historical users of…

We’re in one of those three states where they meet at the Cumberland Gap National Historic Park campground. We luxuriated in hot showers here where no coins were needed. We worked up a little sweat earlier in the day on the Domes and Drips hike in Mammoth Cave. The tour dropped three-hundred steps down into…

Narrow Mississippi River Bridge Up early and on the road to Paducah, Kentucky, Bufffy led us across both the Mississippi and Ohio rivers before lunch.  Carriage rides offer tours of Paducah Flood Wall and open gate from the Ohio river Downtown Paducah Beth checks out the high water marks Murals on the town side of…

Our serendipity route took us from Oklahoma to Missouri today with a stop in Bartlesville, OK to see the only Frank Lloyd Wright high rise design ever built. Intuition waits for us by the 66 sculpture The 66 sign is by the same guy who did the Love sculpture with the slanted “o“.  It is…

Tonight we are near Bartellsville, OK at Osage Hills State Park. Arrived around 5 and jumped on our bikes. A small waterfall and an overlook built by the CCC in the 1930’s were the rewards. Nice to see trees and green. Back roads have shown us rolling hills, small towns, oil pumps, wind farms, natural…

Enjoyed showers and a haircut before heading out of New Mexico this morning. Most of today was crossing the Texas panhandle.  We stopped to stretch at Cadillac Ranch within site of the RV park where we stayed heading west. The cars were planted in 1974 and are now more paint than cars. Another RV park…