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North America » United States » Kentucky » Corbin October 29th 2013

Drove down to Cumberland Falls today. A nice fall day, but nut much sun. About 67 and partly cloudy. The falls is pretty cool...about 68 feet wide in a normal year. Less when the river's lower and of course, wider when the spring and fall rains are keeping the river running higher. They call it the Niagara of the South. I have to say that in comparison Rock Creek Falls is still pretty cool in the grand scheme of things!!! (and about 2 miles from the old homestead as the crow flies :) We've been doing our working thing at Amazon.com...trying to get out and about on our "weekends". Last week we drove to Lexington to the Kick Ass Brew Fest. It was in a great venue called The Grand Reserve. Looked like an old railroad ... read more

North America » United States » Kentucky » Corbin June 25th 2013

Geo: 36.9441, -84.0955We awoke after a restful night sleep with our intrepid explorer feet itching. After some breakfast we headed for Cumberland Falls National Park. We started walking and it wasn't long before we heard the roaring of the waterfall. This was a beautiful sight and we took various routes to different viewing points where were even lucky enough to see a rainbow formed in the waterfall. However, we came here to explorer so we set off on the most dangerous looking trail we could find. This was a hike adjacent to the river but unfortunately the rain decided to try and stop us. But these explorers were not going to be put off that easily and we persevered - only stopping occasionally to stop in caves when rain got heaviest. We hiked, climbed and strolled ... read more




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