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Home From Vacation
nunn
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It is good to be home!
While we were still at Louisville, we made a side trip over to Mammoth Cave. The really good tours were all booked, but we took a short self-guided tour through part of the cave. Then we hiked some of the trails through the area. It was VERY HOT and humid and it like to have wore me out. Down at the end of one of the trails was a spring that ran out of the rock face way up there, and dribbled down to a sort of a grotto, where the cliff face was undercut. The pool was big enough to swim in, but very cold. #3 son Cameron went in for a short time. It did not take him long to get all he wanted of that cold water. Wife said she would have had she brought clothes to
change into. I felt the water and decided I would not go in under any circumstances. It was maybe 50 degrees.
We were going to try to make it to Little Rock on Sunday, but we didn't make it. I had a hankering for crab legs, and Sunday was the last day of the all-you-can-eat special on the crawly crustaceans at Red Lobster. We figured Memphis would be our best bet for finding a Red Lobster, and turned out there were three of them there. Took us a bit to find one, and we even got there at a reasonable suppertime, but then we had to wait and wait for a table. Then, I tried my best to bankrupt the company by eating many, many crab legs. Dinner for the four of us came to $82.00 with tip, and was the most we spent on any one meal this trip, or anytime in recent memory. We finally got out of there about 10 PM and there was no way to make it to Little Rock, so we stopped for the night at a place called Forrest City, a little town right on I-40 maybe 45 minutes from West Memphis. We did not want to stay in Memphis particularly, and there was nothing attractive in West Memphis, so Forrest City was it.
Monday morning I phoned up SaxonPig and arranged to meet him when we got into Little Rock. We had a very nice visit with SaxonPig at his home. He was most gracious, and is a many of many interests and talents. Definitely someone I would like to know better. Thanks, SaxonPig, for having us in.
Lessons learned worth passing along:
1. Don't take kids on vacation.
2. If compliance with #1 is not possible, limit time in the car to no more than 3-4 hours a day, and even then plan long stops every 40 minutes to an hour or so. With one kid this may not be so critical, but with two or more, they start picking at one another when the get bored.
3. If compliance with #2 is not possible, make them comfortable enough to go to sleep and do most of your driving at night. We prefer to drive in the daytime whenever possible, though. We can see more and we get fewer dead bugs on the car that way.
We did none of the above, but we are still learning.
As previously stated, I am planning the next vacation. No marathon driving. Gonna stay closer to home and take our time. Mama says she isn't going. She will rethink her position I am sure.
SIG pistol armorer/FFL Dealer/Full time Peace Officer, Moderator of General Discussion Board on Gunbroker. Visit www.gunbroker.com, the best gun auction site on the Net! Email davidnunn@texoma.net
While we were still at Louisville, we made a side trip over to Mammoth Cave. The really good tours were all booked, but we took a short self-guided tour through part of the cave. Then we hiked some of the trails through the area. It was VERY HOT and humid and it like to have wore me out. Down at the end of one of the trails was a spring that ran out of the rock face way up there, and dribbled down to a sort of a grotto, where the cliff face was undercut. The pool was big enough to swim in, but very cold. #3 son Cameron went in for a short time. It did not take him long to get all he wanted of that cold water. Wife said she would have had she brought clothes to
change into. I felt the water and decided I would not go in under any circumstances. It was maybe 50 degrees.
We were going to try to make it to Little Rock on Sunday, but we didn't make it. I had a hankering for crab legs, and Sunday was the last day of the all-you-can-eat special on the crawly crustaceans at Red Lobster. We figured Memphis would be our best bet for finding a Red Lobster, and turned out there were three of them there. Took us a bit to find one, and we even got there at a reasonable suppertime, but then we had to wait and wait for a table. Then, I tried my best to bankrupt the company by eating many, many crab legs. Dinner for the four of us came to $82.00 with tip, and was the most we spent on any one meal this trip, or anytime in recent memory. We finally got out of there about 10 PM and there was no way to make it to Little Rock, so we stopped for the night at a place called Forrest City, a little town right on I-40 maybe 45 minutes from West Memphis. We did not want to stay in Memphis particularly, and there was nothing attractive in West Memphis, so Forrest City was it.
Monday morning I phoned up SaxonPig and arranged to meet him when we got into Little Rock. We had a very nice visit with SaxonPig at his home. He was most gracious, and is a many of many interests and talents. Definitely someone I would like to know better. Thanks, SaxonPig, for having us in.
Lessons learned worth passing along:
1. Don't take kids on vacation.
2. If compliance with #1 is not possible, limit time in the car to no more than 3-4 hours a day, and even then plan long stops every 40 minutes to an hour or so. With one kid this may not be so critical, but with two or more, they start picking at one another when the get bored.
3. If compliance with #2 is not possible, make them comfortable enough to go to sleep and do most of your driving at night. We prefer to drive in the daytime whenever possible, though. We can see more and we get fewer dead bugs on the car that way.
We did none of the above, but we are still learning.
As previously stated, I am planning the next vacation. No marathon driving. Gonna stay closer to home and take our time. Mama says she isn't going. She will rethink her position I am sure.
SIG pistol armorer/FFL Dealer/Full time Peace Officer, Moderator of General Discussion Board on Gunbroker. Visit www.gunbroker.com, the best gun auction site on the Net! Email davidnunn@texoma.net
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Way back when my kids were little, I would put Momma and kids all in the back seat, seems to work better that way but sorta hard on She Who Must Be Obeyed
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Edited by - rugster on 08/06/2002 10:04:30
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"It was like that when I got here".
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WOOF.
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If I knew then, what I know now.
We traveled in it mainly at night, because it was not air conditioned.
(I can't imagine owning a non-air-conditioned vehicle in Texas.)
The back seat folded down and there was room for a mattress in there, with room left over just behind the front seats for two suitcases.
So that is how we went. Mom and Dad up front. Kids sleeping in the rear. Never mind seat belts. There weren't any.
Even if you weren't sleepy, lying there over the differential listening to the roar of the gears and the hum of the tires on the road, you would get that way.
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