We were in the Smokey Mountains last fall but it was so crowded with TOURISTS looking for leaf color, we bailed out for Dolly World in Pigeon Ford. (Just kidding about the Dolly World part.) So we decided that we were close so we'd give it another try. Selected Cades Cove because of its isolated location and the opportunity to do a 12 mile bike loop through the Valley.
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| On The Road To Cades Cove |
Guess What. The leaf lookers must have just got caught in an endless loop because they were still there going round and round. Fortunately the campground was empty so we set up and decided to drive the loop that evening as a test run. Good thing we did, because to bike it would have been a death-defying act.
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We Purchased A Retirement Home
(Can you say "Hatfields" |
Never-the-less, it was a nice evening drive and there were a LOT of deer out in the pasture lands. You might thing nobody in Tennessee had ever seen a deer before. It took almost two hours to get around the 11-mile loop.
However, we DID get to see a bear. He/She was
only a couple of hundred yards from the campground so we probably could have save ourselves the drive if we had just waited back at the site.
We decided biking it in the morning would be NUTS, so we move on tomorrow.
Good Night From the Smokies.
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