Half of my first summer as a teenager was spent in a compact car, driving back and forth from Southern California to New Orleans with my mother and nine-year-old sister. I was torn between huge curiosity and excitement, and the nagging certainty spending so much time with my ultra-extroverted mother and sister would cause my head to explode. I
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Have you been to Colossal Cave in Arizona?
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There are caves about half an hour from Cedar Falls... :)
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Also if you're ever going across TX on I-10 for some reason, Caverns of Sonora is very much worth stopping for.
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Sadly, there wasn't enough time to go again that day, but visiting caves became a family camping trip thing. I am not fond of crawl space only, but I do enjoy the public access style tours.
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Dev was nine or ten when I first took him to the caves of southern Indiana. He was fine with it, for the most part, until the first time the guide turned off all the lights. But the freak-out was minor, and we hit more caves the next day.
We also found, as homeschoolers who could visit mid-week during the school year, that we ended up receiving private tours of caverns because we'd be the only visitors. In almost every location, we were led through passages and non-public places. I think the tour guides were just grateful to have someone to show around.
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Weekday visiting is definitely a bonus, tho some of the caves around here (ok, within more-or-less daytrip distance of here) need you to call ahead & make sure they're actually running tours on low demand days.
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