Cumberland Gal: Sunday's Ride Exploring Sink Holes and Hunting Waterfalls

Exploring Sink Holes and Hunting for Waterfalls

Ride distance approx 12 miles

Kenny & Dana Koogler

Sunday Feb. 15, 2015

We got back to the vehicle on Saturday evening to find that all was OK.

We'd not had anything vandalized. A great relief. We knew from the forecast that

Sunday morning was supposed to be pretty, but very cold. The weather man got the forecast

correct and we woke to fifteen degrees with a high expected of thirty-five!

We planned to sleep in, eat breakfast, and ride up on the mountain behind the motel where

there was supposed to be a really big waterfall. We figured if we found that one

we'd then just head home.

We bundled up and went in search of it after breakfast. We found a spring coming out

of the mountain, but it was bleak looking and there was rock mining going on. We just weren't feeling it was right to be up there prowling around especially as cold as it was. Kenny said he

felt we should get going and so we did. We always try to have a back up plan. I had a clear

idea of where we needed to be today. I'd had something pulling me in a given direction.

Not to a waterfall, but to a sink hole! I thought the test would be to tell Kenny my plan and

if he agreed we'd go. He has learned to trust that little vibe I get as I trust his. He instantly said Yes! Let's go. I like that idea. I knew this was going to be good.

I usually tell where we go. Today as I write this blog I will NOT be revealing the location.

Do not ask me for any names or directions. I posted the photo on Waterfalls of Tennessee

facebook group and got all sorts of questions and friend requests. It is not that people like me so

much as they want to pump me for info.

I have certain trusted persons I share and swap info with. I may not have met a person

in real life, but if I know them by regular contact in the internet and know them by reputation..

I may learn to trust them and share with them. We learn to trust one another with secrets.

I will no longer respond to every request for info from rude persons who think its OK to simply

type under a photo "Where is this?" and share my hard earned knowledge.

One jackass who saw that I was not willing to share the info on FB about the location launched into assault mode. Told me how 'arrogant I was and wanted to know if I thought I was the first person to ever visit those waterfalls." My answer was simple. No. I know some of the people who have been. They did not tell me how to get there. I found it myself. That man did not even know me. He does not know my heart. He does not care about my hard work, what drives me, what leads me. He does not know or care how many people I've helped to find pretty places.

I have learned my lesson about casting pearls before swine.

Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.--Matthew 7:6