Gatlinburg, TN

This has been our campsite in Pigeon Forge, TN for the last three days. Been spending our time walking around the town and hitting the nice restaurants, 4 so far this weekend. It is very difficult to get across the main street when traffic is bad. You can only cross at traffic lights, which must be a half mile apart. We have reservations to camp in Cades Cove in Smokey Mountain national park for the next 2 days. This time of year reservations are recommended. This campsite is where we will have $10 campsites with no electricity or internet.






Here we are eating a meal in downtown Gatlinburg.






It took us 2 hours to get the five miles from Pigeon Forge to Gatlinburg.







This is a picture of a rock slide that has been in the news that has closed I40 for a month or more. I think this happened sunday morning at 2 am. We crossed this spot on friday afternoon.

Linn Cove Viaduct

We had four beautiful days, seen the highlight of trip so far, the Linn cove viaduct on thursday, then Friday it turned bad with rain and fog. The blue ridge parkway is no place to be when it gets foggy. We had stayed in a campground in Julian Price Memorial park. Left the parkway and drove down to I40. From there we went over to Gatlinburg , TN. We are staying at a campground in Pigeon Forge for 3 days. It is very nice but expensive at $42 per night compared with the national park campgrounds at $8 per night, we have the national park passport card that gets us half price at park campgrounds. Here is some of the many pics we took.

Blue ridge parkway 1

Barb hiking Appalachian trail




















Butterfly sat on my hand.




















































I'm walking on Appalachian trail