Quality Inn Cherokee

... them but they ALL sing loudly... all day long.

Places we Visited:

PIGEON FORGE – This is home to country music festivals, magic shows, gospel choirs, the Dixie Stampede and Dollywood. The Parkway strip is full of hotels, hillbilly dinner theaters (including a show called Hoot & Holler or Shindig where home-boys play their one-string fiddles, blow on jugs and stomp around the ...

... s run with a vine-covered overgrown forest that used to be Washington D.C.

Humor of the day:
Overheard on the train. "After only a few months, my daughter has learned to speak southern. Her 'yes' has three syllables."

Sign in bar "If you are drinking to forget your problems, please pay first!"

Wishing you a life full of days are as good as our day today. Cheers, Dave, Sue & Misty

... 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.

We went through tunnels carved from Mountains.

Although it rings so familiar..and I have no clue why? we rolled through ...

... color, a few wild turkeys, and several deer grazing in the meadows in Cades Cove.

This is the 75th Anniversary (actually, my birthday, June 15th, was the date!) of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and Dolly arton was named the Ambassador for the 75th, so we were able to buy a fund-raiser CD written and sung by Dolly especially for the occasion!

We spoke to a park ranger, who discouraged us from taking the drive ...

... Park area.

We arrived at our campground, (a small park right on Walden Creek that managed to squeeze a lot of RV's into very little space), at 1:15. We were horrified, when we turned off of I-40 to head into Pigeon Forge, to see traffic at a standstill as far as we could see. Pigeon Forge (Home of Dollywood) and Gatlinburg have become huge tourist attractions, with miles and miles of T-Shirt Shops, Ripley's Believe it ...

Hi, everyone,
Just want to say that the Riverstone Lodge in Townsend, Tn. is by far the very best place to stay in The Smoky Mountains. It is the closest Hotel / Lodge to Cades Cove which is just unbeleivable with its mountain views and all the wildlife (deer, black bear, wild turkeys ect...) also well maintained original cabins & churches from the1800's are spread out across the 11 mile journey. Mountains all around you. AHHH. The ...

Yesterday was a pretty relaxed day of driving, minus the extreme sticky southern heat. This stuff the horribly disgusting!!!!! We only made a few stops, one was to get our normal beer and glass, we tried to get one at a few places in Nashville but we struck out a lot. So we stopped in Knoxville and we finally got one. After that our mission was complete. We got back on the road and headed to our destination Pigeon Forge, home of ...

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.

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.

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.

It was Beautiful....

... that her husband (who was loading the truck behind us) didnt understand her because he was only "mixed blooded indian Cherokee". She gave us her address and cell phone in case we were close to her trailer park in Cherokee! Given the delay of the laundry, and that the mountain roads to the Great Smokey Mountains are of reduced speed limit (30 miles per hour) it wasnt until ...