Category: Tennessee
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Smoky Mountain Spring
You don’t know what you don’t know until you know. We thought 8 days in the Smokies would be plenty. We thought Smoky Mountain Spring would be snow-free. We learned. Three campgrounds are open year round – Smokemont in the southeast, Elkmont in the northmiddle and Cades Cove in the northwest. We thought we’d get…
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Clingmans Dome All Alone
There’s no higher vista in Great Smoky Mountain National Park than Clingmans Dome. 6,643 feet. Motorists make a 7 mile, 1,600 foot elevation climb on a paved and winding road to summit parking, then hike 330 feet higher for 360 above-the-treetop views. Appalachian Trailers hike any number of miles through the woods to pop out…
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Walking in Memphis
Halloween rain goblins tricked us last night with torrential downpours that shook the Betty all night long. When our Tiffan Phaeton neighbor baled at 5:30am, we started buttoning up to get out of raintown, and in the process discovered the ghouls killed the fridge. We’ve lived without the fridge before. Two years ago we did…
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42 Hours in Memphis
VOTE says the billboard just outside Nashville en route to a 42 hour stay in Memphis. We mailed our absentee ballots on the day we started trekking west. Now 936 miles from home, we are camping on the banks of the mighty Mississippi River at Tom Sawyer RV park in West Memphis, AR, where we…
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Traversing Tennessee
Coffee by the river on a crisp morning before the 240 mile drive to Cedars of Lebanon State Park, a 1,139 acre red cedar tree park. We proudly brew Starbucks Morning Joe. Lately our breakfast of choice has been green smoothie with almond butter on Dave’s Good Seed bread or one of our homemade teff…