Ramey Road Trip Day 13: Out In The Smokies

Here we go back out into the mountains!! This time we were out in the Great Smoky Mountains. A lot of the ride out of Tennessee was through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. So we made several stops to various places to get our passports stamped and enjoy the views.

We kept driving for a while until we got to a spot that we wanted to see up in the mountains. It was just a small park that was mainly a trail head for several different hiking trails but we went and took some pictures since in the middle of the park was the border between Tennessee and North Carolina.

Another place we went to had a little museum that talked about early life in the mountains and how people made a living back then. Also in the back was a homestead set up to show what an early farm would have looked like. It was really cool; there was the house, the barn, a mill, a blacksmith's shed, a meat curing shed, and even a pig pen and chicken coop with pigs and chickens inside (well the chickens were running around). We also got to see a bunch of wild turkeys roaming about in a field but we couldn’t go closer because it is elk rutting season and that would have been a bad idea.

After that we didn’t really stop too much except for a couple of stops to place some flowers on some more graves. Though we did get to go to some local fruit stands which were nice, they had a lot of yummy looking homemade jam. We crossed through North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, and into Georgia where we were staying for the night.

I liked Georgia a lot I thought it was really pretty, especially the houses which were big and really pretty looking. We even got to see a real life preparatory school (like the stereotypical ones you see in movies, complete with brick walls and white trim, it was huge). The campground itself wasn’t too big, but it was inside this fancy park area that had a golf course and a bunch of other stuff.

We pulled into our campsite and decided to go swimming since it was so hot. So Jared, CC, and I put on our swimsuits and headed to the pool to swim for a bit before it closed, then we headed back to the site for dinner.


After we ate our yummy dinner of potato boats, I challenged Jared to a game of cribbage. Since he didn’t know how to play I taught him, and he put up a noble effort but I kicked his butt both times. Then since it was getting late and everyone was tired we got into our bed and I read for a bit while Jared worked on some stuff (I would have done work stuff too but the Internet connection was too slow to make that possible), until finally I got too tired and I went to sleep.


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