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A minute about Kentucky

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Hello! After leaving Michigan we headed to Kentucky. Our plan: Mammoth Cave and Kentucky Bourbon! First up, Mammoth Cave. Long-time readers may recall our quick trip to MCNP in 2021. We did not have tickets for a tour so just did the short self-tour, getting a small look at this longest cave in the world. This time we planned ahead and bought tickets for the Extended Historical Tour. This tour took us deep into the cave, to Mammoth Dome, Fat-man's Misery, Tall-man's Agony and the Bottomless Pit. You can imagine, fat man was narrow and tall man short. It was fun! Many steps were needed to climb back out, over 500! One of our friends had recommended the Kentucky Bourbon trail.  We were so excited about this adventure we extended our trip to allow time for bourbon - without having to drive after the tastings. Heaven Hill (a large distillery) was our first stop. We saw their little museum, learned about the barrels that bourbon is put in and tasted five bourbons/whiskies.  The buil
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Summer Road Trip

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Hi, we decided to escape the heat and head up to Detroit to see Austin and Jamie.  We left Aug 1 headed for Nashville to hang out with my Uncle and Aunt and their family. We had a great time with them, we played plenty of games and saw a few sites. The Country Music Hall of Fame is on Broadway in downtown Nashville. Lots of gold and platinum records: Elvis's famous "golden" car: Some favorites: Heard plenty of live music along Broadway: Shelley took us all to Arrington Winery, live Bluegrass music and good wine. Uncle Daniel and Aunt Dee enjoying some wine. After a quick dinner with friends in Columbus, Ohio we arrived in Detroit.  We went to see the Motown Museum. We highly recommend it! It was incredible! This hat and glove belonged to the King of Pop - Michael Jackson. He and his family were discovered by Barry Gordy at Motown records. This is the original recording studio of Motown Records. Artists such as Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, MJ and the Jackson 5, Stevie Wond
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Zacopane, Poland

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 Hello from Frankfurt! We are flying home today but have some time to finish up the last blog of our tour of Poland! We left Krakow and headed to Zakopane for a week of "nature". Bucolic scenes away from cars and people is just what we are looking for after the three city tour. Well... that is not exactly what we found in the touristy town of Zakopane near the Tatra National Park. We did some hiking, saw a castle, visited a spa, got a massage and ate some good food! We also dealt with lots of traffic, tons of tourists and an apartment that was right next to the very busy fire station! Enough complaining .... here are the pics: Our first hike was to a little waterfall. It was a nice day, hot as usual. The next day we went to Niedzica Castle. It sits on a little lake.  The castle is quite old - 13th century but is in decent shape having been lived in until 1945. This is the potty chair that would have been used by the lord of the manner... kind of like a potty-training toilet f
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