Best Western Crossroads Inn Hotel Gatlinburg

... s run with a vine-covered overgrown forest that used to be Washington D.C.<br><br> Humor of the day: <br> Overheard on the train. "After only a few months, my daughter has learned to speak southern. Her 'yes' has three syllables."<br><br>Sign in bar "If you are drinking to forget your problems, please pay first!"<br><br>Wishing you a life full of days are as good as our day today. Cheers, Dave, Sue &amp; Misty<br>

... to wander over the Elk and get a closer look. As I inched about 50 ft from a few, they looked up and I sensed I had reached my boundary with them and just stayed at the safe distance. Standing with Elk all around, with water in my shoes, staring up into the sky, raindrops falling on my skin, I felt at one with the Earth once again. I love it.<br><br>We went through tunnels carved from Mountains.<br><br>Although it rings so familiar..and I have no clue why? we rolled through ...

... 441 through the center of the park, indicating that, at the higher elevations, the fog would be too thick to see anything, anyway, and it could be a little white knuckled driving the curves in the fog. He encouraged us to travel the Cades Cove Loop, instead, which runs along the far western side of the park, and includes a number of the original Appalachian homes, churches and farmsteads of the early pioneers in the area. One of the ...

... Not Museums, Buffet Restaurants, Music Shows and Auditoriums, and more go-kart tracks than we've ever seen, in all our travels combined! It turns out that most of the schools in Tennessee are closed this week for Fall Break, so a lot of the tourists were families, here for the amusement parks more than the National Park. Neither of us enjoys this carnival-atmosphere, so prevalent now in towns like Branson, Wisconsin Dells and ...

We leave the battlefield and drive to Chattanooga proper to the Terminal Brew Pub. It is fairly new but it in an old terminal station. I believe the waiter said the old Chattanooga hotel but I am not sure. I actually have a beer (a Belgium wheat) and the frufru sandwich (Chicken breast, pear, brie cheese). I also have the sweet potato cheesecake for dessert. It is very good. While we are dining the ...

... the kids just love. Bicycles, tubes for floating down the river. some areas have pretty good rapids parts are slower and relaxing. The bicycle trail starts right there accross the road and runs to the other end of town (5 miles). The Tuckaleechee Caverns are amazing and only cost about $12.00 per person for an almost 2 hour tour and it is open not not cramped like most. Many horseback riding stables. The best one is 1 mile from Lodge and ...

It has been many years since I've been in Cherokee and little has changed except for the Casino which is undergoing major expansion. We were nestled into a nice RV park with a brook flowing through it. Cherokee is close to many attractions and we enjoyed our stay there.

... was worth it. I got some great pictures. I got to experience the joy of Tim having to give me a rump shove to get me up on to some rocks I had climbed down to get a shot, with about 15 people standing around watching. That was a little less fun for me that it seemed to amuse all of them, but anyway, I got the shot. I am also reminded that I am not 17 any any more. Nope, thats a sailed ship right ...

We found a spot somewhere on the border of North Carolina and Tennessee. It was so beautiful we spent a few days here and did everything.<br><br>We did some white water rafting near our site and met a friend. She was a cat the lived there and loved sleeping in the tent. ha ha ha.... We named her Nantahala, 'Nanta' for short.<br><br>It was Beautiful....

... hundreds of acres of property. We were given a key to the "Bebb House", which was the home of the original developer of the property and was a secluded three bedroom house with sweeping views of the Smokies from the living room. We got this for a relative song, and should have stayed longer than an overnight. However, we had a babysitter that evening for the first time in a while and had a quiet dinner for two in the Inn dining room watching sun set color the mountains.