Our Adventure... and Home Again

We are home from our grand adventure and we had a super-duper time!

We visited:
1) Amazing Mammoth Cave! We especially enjoyed and recommend the Historic Tour. We also took the New Entrance Tour but enjoyed the Historic a bit more. Our visit was a neat experience. Even above ground, for those whose knees or aversion to close places won't allow a wander through the cave, is beautiful.
2) Ruby Falls (the highest cave waterfall open to the public in the world, they say), the Incline Railway (a majorly crazy incline... over 70 percent!), and Rock City, with beautiful gardens, a swing bridge over a gapping precipice, and a view of seven states (but also somewhat confusingly addled with kitschy gnomes and fairy tale characters).
3) We also enjoyed a stay with my best friend Barbara in Davenport (near Orlando, FL) for several days. It was wonderful to see where she lives and sips her tea when we chat on the phone. I had imagined, but now I know.
4) We also stayed one night at The Dolphin, a fancy Disney World hotel, with Roxanne my former sister-in-law. It was great to spend time with her amazing children.
5) After another night with Barb and family we headed east and the fastest stop at the ocean which was Cocoa Beach. I quickly determined it wasn't the place to stay but nonetheless we stopped at a public ocean-front beach and took pictures of David taking in the ocean for the first time.
6) We stopped at the Kennedy Space Center. Very cool.
7) After our fun at KSC, we ended up all the way up in St. Augustine. I loved St. Augustine-- its history, and the Atlantic Ocean! So wonderful!
8) We headed home, and on the way we visited the amazing Indianapolis Children's Museum! If you have kids, you MUST, must, must visit! It is the largest children's museum in the world!
Our vacation... our journey, our time together on the road... was a special and sweet time. My dear David was an absolutely wonderful, chatty, fun, sweet and interesting traveling companion. Never once did I hear, "Are we there yet?!" Isn't that dear?
And here we are-- home again, and thankfully so. Our journey was wonderful and our time together was sweet.

My gratitude for the opportunity is deep. Memories have been made.