Super 8 Motel Knoxville/East

... 8220;Stop & pet our Pet Pig” – it’s cement, its red, it has a bow and a sign hanging off of it that says “Sausage”

· At Hill Billy’s Village antique shop “All items Cash – Whiskey Stills FREE”

· Radio advertisers announce their locations by saying things like “We’re located on Parkway Ave between lights 3 and 4 ...

... 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 ...

... so once we got the motorhome in our site and parked - we chose to just stay in and watch lots of good stuff on TV ("good stuff" being defined as the Angels beating the Red Sox to win the Division Title, my favorite driver Jimmie Johnson winning the Nascar Race at California Speedway, and the not-so-good NY Yankees beating the Minnesota Twins).

Tomorrow, rain or shine...we're doing Smoky Mountains National Park!

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 ...

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 ...

... but it is not. PEASE STOP!!!! It is not okay. The action of putting pythons in the everglades is like hurting innocent ...

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....

... we'll drive up and a whole new set of adventures will hopefully unfold. Whatever happens with this trip I'll do my best to make it interesting for both myself and all of you reading. Also I'm trying to get the ball rolling on pictures, but sometimes things move fast enough that I forget the camera. In anycase, I'll soon upload the photos I have right now in addition to all the cool ones I'll take along the way from this point on.

... close by. I got out at 7 am this morning and basically just wanted to get back to the main road, I guess, so I drove straight through. Actually, I stopped at a pancake house, then drove straight through. The pancake house's menue's led off with the phrase "Good morning and may the Good Lord bless your day." Yes, I'm in the country. However, everything is cheaper out here, too, which is good. A final note on the Smokies, this is my fourth straight day camping (my ...