I just got home today from a vacation. My girlfriend and I went to Cherokee NC, Gatlinburg Tn and Pigeon Forge Tn. We had a lot of fun. It was kind of cool and damp but not too bad. Coming back through the Great Smokey Mountain National Park Friday there was still snow on the ground that had fallen in the upper elevations the previous night or two. We saw a about a dozen turkeys going through there Tuesday and we saw about half dozen coming back Friday. We also saw six elk coming back Friday. Her favorite thing was the aquarium in Gatlinburg and my favorite thing was seeing the hills. I love mountains so that is what I crave. When I was young I used to think that these were "Mountains" but after my stint at driving trucks for twenty years and seeing the "Rockies" and the "Grand Tetons" the mountains on the east coast just seem like a bump in the road to me.
