Rammy's Ramblings

[Mike CHS]

Even Google Maps shows it like you figured. Claude Fox Rd ends where you see that first 90 degree turn and that's where it becomes Tunnel Hill. There is another left 90 a short way from that and we are at the top of that hill. The mailbox had double reflectors on it and like I said, our farm sign is right behind the mail boxes. When GPS says you have arrived, go another 1/4 mile.

The neighbor on the right and up the steep hill when you turn in has a bunch of mixed breed goats. You can't see our house from Tunnel Hill so if it tells you that you are there and you see a white house not far from the road, it isn't us. It's pretty straight forward if you just go till you see our sign.

 

[RollingAcres]

So I have to wait until the 15th or after the 15th to see/hear about your gathering?

 

[Latestarter]

Mike might post after we leave, & Rammy might post something when she gets home, but I doubt I will as I will have an 8 hour drive back. So soonest I expect to be back on would be the 16th...

 

[greybeard]

I'll send you both a PM with the address and also my email in case something comes up. We have one of those places that GPS can't exactly find and it will tell you that you have arrived at a small white house that is on a direct line to our house but you can't get here from there. When you get on Tunnel Hill Rd just go till you see a wooden sign on the left that has our Farm name - Shepherds Hill Farm. Once you are on the driveway you can see our place on the left down the hill.

Get off of I-65 at Exit 22 and head toward Cornersville/Lewisburg, go a little less than a mile to Claude Fox Rd (at a bridge) and turn right. That turns into Tunnel Hill which is the road we live on. A bit of trivia - Tunnel Hill Rd is named after the railroad that runs through a tunnel under our driveway.

Doesn't really look like much of a hill for them to decide to go thru instead of around or over.

 

[Mike CHS]

I haven't been able to find anyone that knows why they dug that tunnel. The property lines are funny also. We own the property on both sides of the railroad in an inverted "U" shape and we also own the property 20' from where the tunnel starts.

 

[greybeard]

we also own the property 20' from where the tunnel starts.

I see people use that terminology frequently regarding rail bridges, highway bridges and both kinds of tunnels and I usually remind them it 'depends which direction a train or vehicle is going doesn't it?'

A friend once told me he would meet us at the 'end of I-10 bridge over the Atchafalaya Basin.
Uh...it's nearly 20 miles long...which end?'

 

[Bruce]

That does seem like an odd tunnel. Way more work to dig and reinforce it than just go over.

 

[Mike CHS]

You can't tell it from the satellite image but the track parallels a road that drops almost 200' just beside where the tunnel is and it is made of that slab rock that you are used to in Vermont. There is no way to know what the politics were when it was built (1870's) because the county I and the neighbors in our valley are in a little finger of land about 2 miles wide that penetrates the adjacent county by 5 miles.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Mike might post after we leave, & Rammy might post something when she gets home, but I doubt I will as I will have an 8 hour drive back. So soonest I expect to be back on would be the 16th...

I still have it penciled in....do I need to erase that?.......I'm sure to get a pic or 2 also.....

 

[Mike CHS]

Are you and Joyce going to make it?