Sweetwater, TN

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESSICA A BIG 8 YEARS OLD TODAY

Hello my family:

Today was a fun day for us. We left the Comfort Inn in Sweetwater, Tn ( a somewhat less than spectacular hotel) but adequate and went to The Lost Sea Cave a few miles down the road. It was a cave with stalagmites and stalactites but little ones. The main interest here was the lake that was in the cave. 40 feet deep and 500 feet long with live rainbow trout in it that they feed because there is no living stuff in there except the fish. We walked through the cave and saw the formations of rock and stuff and then took a boat ride in the lake. Very interesting we took pictures but in a dark cave they didn’t come out too well. The one interesting thing they did was to turn all the lights out and give us the opportunity to experience complete darkness. They told us that in two weeks we would be completely blind as our retinas would die of overwork trying to find light. Bit of .Trivia Obviously we were glad it was only a few minutes. When we came out of the cave we were hungry and they had a little restaurant there so we had BBQ sandwiches appropriate for there since they have BBQ as often as we serve pizza. Then we did the bulk of our ride or so we thought. One of the Harley guys that we met yesterday told us about Fall Creek Falls and then today at one of our stops a man mentioned it to us again. So we thought this must be something special so we set about to find it. There is a town named Fall Creek Falls so signs were all over for it. But we wanted the falls itself. So after a few false starts and turn arounds we found the falls in a state park. It was sure worth the trip they were beautiful the pictures really don’t do them justice. After that it was getting late so we wanted to put some miles under our belts before finding a motel. We decided to head for McMinnville, Tn but we weren’t prepared for the roads. We went over 3 mountains with the curvey roads that they require.
What a trip. Poor Chriss really got a work out it was one turn and switch back after another that went on and on. We finally arrive at a Best Western in McMinnville Tn and are we glad to be here. We have a Jacuzzi in our room and it sure felt good to relax in that. If you want to Google Earth the roads that we took it was Rte 30 from Athens, TN to Mc Manville, Tn and it sure was curvey.. We covered the bike tonight because it might rain. 80% chance so we will see Supposed to be just cloudy tomorrow but we could see a front coming in as the sun set.

Will continue the saga tomorrow. Boy are we having fun..Love, Mom
(Carol) and Chriss