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29 Jul 2009 A very, very big hole in the ground
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When I was maybe four years old, my parents took me to Mammoth Caves.  Reputedly, I remarked, “Big hole in the ground!”

Indeed.  Almost definitively so, one would say…

But Susan had never seen this particular big hole in the ground, though we’ve toured Carlsbad Caverns a few times and we love that cave system.  So while we were in Kentucky, we decided to take a day and zoom down to Cave City (no shit — they really named the city that) and see Mammoth Caves…

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16 Jul 2009 Leaving the Shire, Mr. Frodo

As I write this, we’re sitting in the airplane at Heathrow, about to take off for the US.  For home and the end of a wild, wonderful, eye-opening, strange, and sometimes stressful year. more…