Travel dates: Saturday, November 19-Sunday, November 20 We spent much of our very busy fall (full of the kids doing a play and Dave finishing his master’s) trying desperately to fit in a weekend trip and failing miserably. We booked or thought about booking weekend after weekend, but things kept popping up to keep us […]
Great Smoky Mountains Trip, Part 2: Outside the Park
A great feature of a trip to the Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge, TN area is that it has a little bit of everything: there’s scenic beauty and hiking and general outdoorsiness if you’re into that, or there are overpriced cheesy tourist traps if that’s more your speed. Or there is the third way, the way of perhaps […]
Great Smoky Mountains Trip, Part 1: Inside the Park
We’re only 3-4 hours from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, depending on which part we’re trying to get to, so I feel like it really ought to be our National Park….yet this was only the second time we managed to make it there as a family. The first time was only a year ago, […]
Imagination Mountain in Cosby, TN Campground Review
I’m once again interrupting the posts about our long early summer trip to talk about our late summer trip to the Great Smoky Mountains. Choosing a campground near the Great Smoky Mountains is a daunting task. First you have to decide what area you want to stay in in or near a huge park that […]
Tennessee State Museum, The Ryman Auditorium, and the Zoo: A Weekend in Nashville, Part 2
So when we left off in part one, we had already visited Fort Negley and the Parthenon, and it was still only lunchtime! I’m very impressed with our October selves! Our lunch mission was to find and consume some of Nashville’s famous hot chicken. On the recommendation of Amber and Nick from Wills Casa, we […]
Fort Negley and the Parthenon: A Weekend in Nashville, Part 1
Hey–new blog! I started writing this post several weeks ago for the other blog, but then I decided to save it to be the inaugural post on this, my brand spanking new travel blog. Exciting! Congratulations, Nashville! I feel like I start all my travel posts this way, but we’d never been to Nashville before […]