Day 1 -

We are in Gatlinburg, and, of course, the 1st day there we have to see the Smokey Mountains....but first.....our lovely campground, Twin Creek Resort....located about 3 miles from downtown out Route 321....Lovely flowers abound as we arrive and set up! The flowers were to suffer damage beyond belief within 24 hours as the temps plummeted to the low 20s!

On the Road from Gatlinburg to Cherokee....across the Smokey Mountains, it got C-O-L-D!!!! Man it was cold....biting cold...Here is Duchess wrapped in leather and a sweatjacket underneath! She stands beside our "Iron Horse" the little Suzuki jeep. We bought her new in 1999, and now they no longer make them (or at least sell them in the USA!)...so we keep her as she is just fun as a vehicle....I recently had the tranny rebuilt as the synchros were failing....while at it we also did the clutch and rear main seal which had begun to leak. She drives like a dream again, and I plan to keep her til she falls off her wheels! She only has 40,000 miles after 7 years.
Ice covered much of the rock face in the mountains as the cold invaded everything!
Even the mountaintops showed the cold....the pic is of the mountains from just outside Gatlinburg....with frost covering the trees atop the mountains. It was COLD!

We enjoyed the mountains, and it was a new experience for us....mountains in winter. We had only visited from May to October in prior trips. Tjis was different. Few leaves, and the flowers that were so beautiful all went away after a single day when the temps plummeted to the low 20s.

Duke