Our September Driving Tour to Mammoth Cave was postponed from September 29th for a week to October 6th due to Hurricane Helene., a Gulf of Mexico Hurricane that destroyed Ashville, NC and caused flooding and tree damage throughout Kentucky. The change of the date was a good move, the weather was wonderful (the last weekend of summer?), sunny and warm, definitely top-down weather.
Thirteen Bluegrass Region members met at the Bluegrass Railroad Museum in Versailles on Sunday morning. We had eight Porsches, three Boxsters, two 911’s. a 930, a Macan and a beautiful red 356. We welcomed new (again) member Chris Bowling for his first drive. After a safety meeting, we lined up and headed west on US-62. The trip took us through Lawrenceburg, Springfield, Lebanon (where we took a rest stop), Campbellsville, Cave City and then we reached our destination, Mammoth Cave National Park. The drive was about 125 miles and took about 3 hours and had a combination of curving roads and straights through rolling hills.
After a bite to eat in the park restaurant, most members headed home, but Brian and Karla Young, Steve and Jenny Krolak and Larry and Shirley Dukes did the Historical Cave Tour. This tour lasts 2 hours, is about 2 miles and you descend 105 feet into the biggest hole you’ll ever see! There where over 500 steps and the last 200 hundred or so where really rough for an old man with one working lung!
Article written by Larry Dukes
