This post actually should be in front of the lucky wood stove dude post. I'm catching up here!
With the non existing summer behind us, Bill and I packed up for a visit to his father down in Cocoa once again but this time by way of the Smokeys. Wow! I'll be heading back there at some point to explore more.
It was disappointing heading in from the Tennessee welcome center driving through what I could only imagine being shanty towns from the name of this town called Pigeon Forge. Shanty Town my a-s! This was a over-rated, over-hyped back to back tourist trap built right up to the base of a mountain!
We stayed in Gaitlyburg tho...not quite as bad as there was a twisty wooded mountain road to get there.
We stayed in a Days Inn that overlooked a mountain stream and had fireplaces in each room with wood!
The next day we did a car tour up through a mountain to see some old Smokey mountain homesteads.
A photographers dreamscape! Ducking in to these small mountain cabins it was fun to imagine the way of life back in the 1800's with no washing machines, electric heat and all the other freedoms we are all so spoiled with now.
And oh! The Views! The Smokies are truly amazing!
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