Tourism

      In the last 20 years I have spent a lot of time in our parks. For example, Kingdom Come State Park, Chain Rock in Pineville, Cumberland Falls near Corbin and Natural Bridge near Beattysville. I look forward to going to see the Mammoth Cave. I'm hoping to take prisioners out of jail and give them the job of helping the rangers and keeping the parks clean. I think the parks need alot more help, and our prisoners will be more than glad to help serve.

      If anybody has a park they want me to come and visit, just call me and I'll come.

      I heard due to the contruction of the tunnels in Middlesboro from Kentucky to Tennessee that Cudjo's Caverns was closed. It's in Cumberland Gap National Park where you can walk under two states. Also in Middlesboro, Kentucky, you have the pinnacle lookout that you can see three states. We are asking as your next as your next governor that this cave be reopened to the public.

      If anyone in the state of Kentucky knows of things like this that have happend, please send me a letter and let me know. I will work with you or your organiztaion to reestablish the beauty of the state of Kentucky.

      In Harlan county, one of my dreams as a kid was to build a massive amusement park. I spent years looking for the land to build it on. I do have one part of land that I'm thinking about buying that is 2,600 acres. That will be for horseback riding, fourwheeler ridering, a dirtbike track and a ghost town. There will be 25 buildings on each side with stores in the bottom and rooms to rent up top. The sheriff will come out and have shootouts in the streets and the banks will get robbed. You can ride a real stagecoach in this town, and it will be set in the year of 1869. One thing about the town: It will be a real working town. The banks will be real to help with the transfer of any money. The sheriff's department will be real. It will provide security. If you get drunk and fall down in the street you will be arrested. The big salloons will be set up with the dancing girls and the rooms set up top just like it should be.

      On the next part would be Cawood Hill Amusement Park. It's going to have one massive building 1,500 feet long with a T-shape going 1,500 feet the other directions. Inside the buiding will be anything that you could dream of to do for kids. It will run year around. The ferris wheel, the go-cart track and smaller roller coasters are going to be on the inside. In the other part, it will have an arena for demolition derbys, tractor pulls or anything that we can dream of. I also want a wild west like General Custer had. The zoo will be outside on 100 acres of flat land and further up the road is where the stock car racing will be. As far as I know there is only one zoo in the entire state and that is in Louisville. I hope to change that.

      Anyone who has any input on this, please send me a letter.

      In Harlan County we recently opened Black Mountain Off-Road Adventure Park. The park is doing very, very well. We are wanting more of this kind of park and fourwheeler tracks going in the state and I will be more than glad to be part of it. If anyone has some ideas on this, send me a letter.