Hiking and Exploring In Parts Of Daniel Boone National Forest and Other Areas--Part 1

This is the first book my series about hiking and exploring in parts of Daniel Boone National Forest and other places outside of the DBNF, which is in eastern Kentucky, south of Lexington. I moved to this region in late 1994 because of the national forest and the topography. Exploring rocky creeks in woods and cliff-lined hollows has long been a big interest of mine, and making photographs of all that. I did a lot of that in western Kentucky, and then started on this region in late '94. After moving here, I made a new friend, Tom, and he and I did some roaming, by road and a little on foot over the next several years. Another new friend and co-worker, David, and I did a lot of cave exploring in 1996, and some surface hiking. I met my wife Barb several years after moving to this region. She likes the outdoors too, and she and I went on many outings. Then Majid found my website I had at the time and contacted me. We became friends and he and I went on many outings since then. We did a lot of hiking in parts of the DBNF here, and a few other places not in DBNF. I made many photos during all those hikes, of cliffs, waterfalls, rocky creeks, and some views from overlooks. I made many photos inside caves in 1996, and had an article published in Kentucky Living magazine late that year. For a while, I had a cave section on my website, which is now gone. That's how Majid found me. I have been making a series of eBooks about all that. I might do a book on caves in this region, the small number I went to. I have many cave photos. David and I weren't hard core cavers. We just went where other people had been, and where we could walk mostly. Those caves were new to us. Mostly, I and whoever was with me hiked on the surface in interesting places, and there are many in this region, many more than I will see. I did a lot of roaming in the boonies by myself in a Jeep while I had one. That was more than 20 years ago. After that, Barb and I did a lot of roaming in different trucks we had. For the last several years, it has been mostly Majid and I going out to the boonies to hike and explore interesting places. Barb hasn't been able to do that anymore. I said more about all this in my introduction inside the book.