Travel from Natural Bridge to Diamond Caverns, KY, was today’s task so we gathered up our stuff and got out of the Natural Bridge campground by 9:30. We filled up Charlotte’s tank and set out for a relatively long drive (185 miles) to a TT campground at Diamond Caverns. We have no idea what Diamond Caverns might be but the campground is inside Mammoth Cave National Park and that’s what we came here to see.
The drive across the state of Kentucky was gorgeous with steep, tree covered ridges on both sides of beautiful river valleys on the east side that transitioned to bluegrass rolling hills near Lexington. We did run into a tiny, 30-mile long construction project on I-65 that slowed us down a bit but traffic moved through it at about 55 so there was little bitching.
The TT Diamond Caverns campground is pretty large with all the amenities we require like sewer, electrical and water and they also have good wi-fi. I can say for a fact that in early August 2015, it was hotter than hell but the humidity is only about 35% so it doesn’t seem too bad unless you go into the sun. The campground does not have very many spaces; maybe 75 so everybody is pretty well spaced out. We took a spot right close to the laundry because laundry day is coming soon and it was shady.
We were big chickens about going outside and chose to remain inside the Invader with both air conditioners on high until the temperature outside got down below 85. We crept out into the shade after that and, with the low humidity, it was actually quite pleasant. By 7:00 PM we had gone back into the trailer and found that our computer would stream Netflix with the excellent wi-fi they run here. Most TT sites have crummy wi-fi out in the camping areas and those with wi-fi that is better than old dial-up systems require you to take your device to a building where the wi-fi is no better. Only Ponderosa in California and this place have wi-fi that would allow streaming.
Peg chose an English (BBC?) show called Doc Martin to stream that had a guy starring in it who was as ugly as New Yorkers but much more pithy. It was okay but it seemed a waste to watch an English serial instead of a movie with gratuitous sex and meaningless violence similar to all the movies I seem to find enjoyable. I may have more personality defects than I had identified previously since this type of movie is the type I find preferable.