The day after we kayaked on the Green River we went hiking down to the River Styx. The River Styx is an underground river where all the ground water comes out of the caves for about a hundred feet and dumps in to the Green river. It is also the river that created Mammoth Caves. On the way back to the camper we went back up to the Historical entrance and my brother realized the air current coming out of the cave was moving the grass along the trail. And the freaky thing was if you put one hand above your head and one at your stomach the top one could feel the normal hot air and the other one could feel the cold air from the cave. Ryan said that it was like a floating river made of air.
Huge tree on River Styx Trail
River Styx Trail
River Styx as it exits the Mammoth Cave System
The next day we had to leave and go to St. Louis and see the Gateway Arch. I didn’t know that you could go up to the top in these small bubble things. It was funny when Ryan hit his head on the ceiling. One of the signs said on a clear day you can see for thirty miles, but we went up at night so I don’t know how far we could see. Still it was a great view of St. Louis at night with all the lights on.
St. Louis Arch
Bubble Thingy ("elevator" to the inside of the top of the arch)
Gateway Arch in St. Louis - Nite sky view from inside the top of the arch
Cool Viewing platform inside the Gateway Arch
After we spent a night a Wal-Mart we packed up and headed west. We crossed the Mississippi River and then it got boring for a long time until me-maw and mom almost hit a hawk that had a HUGE black snake. I didn’t see it, but they said it was 8 or 6 feet long and still alive. Then it got boring again.
The next day we stopped at Cabelas in Kansas City. It had an awesome display with a mountain and lots of animals like cougars, bears, goats, sheep, moose and what not.
Cabela's Kansas City
Next we went to see Kansas’s smallest state park Mushroom Rock state park, on the way in to the part me and Ryan saw our first coyote. For some crazy reason went spend two hours there, but it might have something to do with us climbing the mushroom rock, taking a thousand pictures and seeing a shiny green skink lizard, oh and us being the slowest people in the world. The mushroom rocks are formed by wind eroding the softer lower layer quicker than the harder top layer, leaving the top rock held up by a stem of the softer rock.
Mushroom Rock
Small 'shroom rock
Me-maw at another freaky rock
Ryan climbing Mushroom Rock
Joshua climbing Mushroom Rock
On the way out Ryan stopped to get a picture of a red-tailed hawk and all of the sudden he started jumping up and down and pointing. Guess what he was freaking out about. A STEALTH BOMBER!!! It flew right over us.
Red-tailed "bullet" (Can U C it?)
Stealth Bomber
Then we hit the road again and saw cow, cows, and more cows. Even now as I look out the window I can still see cows.
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