The Two RV Gypsies:
Full-Time RVers
in Louisville, KentuckyOctober 10-11, 2011 |
The
RV of the two RV Gypsies in their new yard at the KOA Campground - Louisville South in Shepherdsville, Kentucky |
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Below: Karen Duquette relaxed in the indoor hot tub at the campground. Many campgrounds do not have hot tubs, especially indoor hot tubs, so this was really a treat. Lee duquette could not join Karen in the hot tub or the pool because ever since he was injured last year in Kentucky, both hot and cold water bother the nerves in his hands. Karen had the hot tub all to herself. | |
The
man-made cavern spans under a number of roadways above and is part of 17
miles of corridors located beneath the city of Louisville, Kentucky. The
Mega Cavern is approximately 100 acres. The cavern was mined from the early 1930's to the early 1970's. The underground is the largest recycling center in Kentucky by tonnage. It handles more material by tonnage than all other cities combined. The average temperature in the Mega Cavern is 58 degrees year round. |
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The MEGA ZIPS
and Adventure Tour is located totally underground in a 100 acre complex
consisting of developed and undeveloped subterranean space. The cavern
was a former limestone pit mine that housed the largest civil defense
shelter in Kentucky with provisions for 50,000 people to live underground
for an extended period of time. The idea for MEGA ZIPS came about when
one of the owners took a zipline tour while on vacation in Mexico. MEGA
ZIPS is the only underground zipline adventure tour in
the world. |
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It does NOT take any skills or physical strength to ride a zipline. Everyone is safely harnessed in and you just have to gently hold onto the handle, relax, and enjoy the ride. The operators control the brake at the end of the zipline. It is a smooth, easy ride, and a smooth stop. There are suspension bridges between each of the zipline stations, and those can be a bit scary, but the two RV Gypsies really enjoyed zipping in the dark. | |
AFTER you have visited all nine (9) sections above, please continue on for more adventures of the two RV Gypsies. Thank you! |
U.S. Marine Corp. history |
Daniel
Boone's grave site |
Louisville, KY and the Mega Cavern (this page) |
After you have finished ALL 9 sections in Kentucky,
please continue on to the Halloween cruise on The Oasis of the Seas
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