David's Tangled Thoughts

In order to camp at the park, we needed to obtain 3 Day passes. We arrived at the Gladie Visitor Center before they opened so we walked over to a nearby homestead dating back sometime in the 19th century. The main features were two barns and a cabin. The park is known to have an abundance of wildlife. While it would have been awesome to sight a bear or scare Kevin with a copperhead snake, this turtle was the biggest wild thing I got to see. After getting our passes, we went on some short trails to see some sights on the upper parts of the gorge. The limestone cliffs were fantastic. Poor Casey had to give his car a hard time going up and down the hills. The engine on a Ford Fiesta is not that powerful. To top it off, he got run off the road by a truck and bottomed out and got stuck in the mud. Fortunately a couple came along and kindly got the car out by dragging it over with a tow strap. Casey is looking into buying AAA membership. We ran into a nu

I am currently traveling down to Kentucky to go camping at Red River Gorge in eastern Kentucky. Four of us are going, my friend Kevin and his boyfriend, William. Also traveling is a friend of William's, Casey. We were supposed to have left early tomorrow morning but William thought it would be worthwhile to leave this evening and arrive there in the morning. It is fortunate that I did not have much packing to do. I did go shopping for some of the things that they were brining on the trip and I am amazed that they got so much stuff. I am also dreading the idea of having to lug that stuff wherever we end up camping. I had thought that this was going to be a through hike but it is not possible to lug all this stuff around so we will be setting up camp somewhere and hiking to and from that place.