Old Rag has eluded us for years now -- a glaring white box on our mental East Coast to do list that we had yet to check. It has loomed over…
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Road Trips
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My sister sent me an article from Saveur magazine a couple months back that inspired us to take a little road trip for our anniversary. We used the article as a…
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Great Smoky Mountains NATIONAL PARKS TENNESSEEBEST OF GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK | A Guide To Our Top 6 Favorites
The Great Smoky Mountains is somewhat similar to Shenandoah in that it's easy to experience by just driving through and stopping at all the roadside vista points. If you don't have…
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Outside of the park most of the lodging options were either concentrated in Gatlinburg or nearby Pigeon Forge (home of Dollywood, which was very very tempting to visit). I get why…
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At over 6,600 feet, Clingmans Dome is the highest point in Great Smoky Mountains, in Tennessee, and the 3rd highest point East of the Mississsippi. It is also the highest point…
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CABINS Great Smoky Mountains HIKING NATIONAL PARKS TENNESSEEGREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS | Visual Guide to Alum Cave Trail
We took the same trail trail back down Mt. LeConte. Even though there were several trails we wanted to explore all of those ended up in a different parking lot and…
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CABINS Great Smoky Mountains NATIONAL PARKS WildlifeGREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS | Foggy Morning On Top Mt. LeConte
It felt somehow magical watching this little deer delicately tread through the tall dewy grass completely indifferent to us. We were in its world, not the other way around. We all…
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CABINS Great Smoky Mountains HIKING NATIONAL PARKS TENNESSEEGREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS | Mt. LeConte Summit – Sunset From Cliff Top
The wind blew pretty hard up at Cliff Top. Some ill-prepared people gave up early while others, like us and our cabin neighbors, waited it out. On their way back down…
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Tiny rugged cabins at the top of the mountain are the stuff dreams are made of. I'm not sure how I first heard about these cabins but I knew the…