I will be taking my family (mother, father, and brother) to Kentucky to visit Mammoth Cave National Park. We went one year when I was 4, but I don’t remember anything. This will be a nice chance for our family to catch up and spend some time together before I go off to college. We will drive there using I-30 and I-40, stopping overnight in Memphis, Tennessee. It is a 755-mile journey and since we will be driving a Prius, we can count on 50 mpg on the highways. The national average gas price today is $2.18/gallon, so it will cost us $32.91 for gas to get there. Of course, there is also some mileage just for finding the hotel or the restaurant you want to go to, so we can round it up to $35.00. When I travel, I like to find local specialties in mom-and-pop restaurants, because we have plenty of chain restaurants in Richardson. We may have to travel a little off
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We will stay at Mammoth Cave campground, the only one with 105 sites, a Camp Store, flush toilets, showers and laundry! One thing we cannot bring with us is wood from outside the camp. The Emerald Ash Borer is an invasive species that kills certain trees and you might unknowingly bring one in with you on your piece of firewood. We can use any dead wood lying around for our campfires, or we can buy it from the store.
We plan on bringing a cook stove with us, so we can heat up water and canned goods. Breakfast might be instant oatmeal with a banana and tea or coffee. Lunch could be a peanut butter and honey sandwich with chips and an apple and dinner could be a big can of chili and a loaf of bread, but the star of the show has to be the smores at night over the fire! When we are not eating or preparing our meals, we have to keep all our food inside the car, not the tent, because then the animals cannot get to it. If they get used to eating human food during the tourist season, they may forget how to forage for
We will stay at Mammoth Cave campground, the only one with 105 sites, a Camp Store, flush toilets, showers and laundry! One thing we cannot bring with us is wood from outside the camp. The Emerald Ash Borer is an invasive species that kills certain trees and you might unknowingly bring one in with you on your piece of firewood. We can use any dead wood lying around for our campfires, or we can buy it from the store.
We plan on bringing a cook stove with us, so we can heat up water and canned goods. Breakfast might be instant oatmeal with a banana and tea or coffee. Lunch could be a peanut butter and honey sandwich with chips and an apple and dinner could be a big can of chili and a loaf of bread, but the star of the show has to be the smores at night over the fire! When we are not eating or preparing our meals, we have to keep all our food inside the car, not the tent, because then the animals cannot get to it. If they get used to eating human food during the tourist season, they may forget how to forage for