It was such a beautiful day out this past Friday, so I decided to take a drive up north to Penns Cave. Taking the boat tour through the caverns brought back alot of memories of my childhood years. My brothers, sister and I use to explore caves around our homestead. These caves were not open to public, and we would have been in a heck of trouble if caught...lol. But what do you expect from locals. Anyhow, when I was touring the Penns Cave caverns the memories started pouring in and I couldn't wait to get home to find the pictures we had taken during those good old days of being an explorer. I scanned those pictures and will be loading into my gallery. I remember, acting like cavemen and surely enough, found a picture of us acting silly. I was probably about 13 years old or so. My sister and oldest brother never went back to those caves, but about 5 years later, my other brother and I did with two friends. My brother and I went down a slope in one of the caves. It must have been about 12 feet down or so. We couldn't get back out because it was too slippery. Make matters worse, the lantern went out. Ran out of fuel. Total darkness..pitch black. My friends high tailed it out of there to go back to their home to get some rope. Those 2 hours waiting seemed like forever. Thank goodness the rope worked. My brother never went back and I moved out of the area. My friends did go back to various caves, but never went in that particular cave. Later, I tried to find the cave again, but couldn't remember. I wouldn't have gone back into that hole again..never. Not in a million years...lol
