Leaf-Peeping in the Smokies
October 2016
It’s been a busy Fall for traveling:
Midwest visits w/ family & friends around Labor Day, Marjorie then off for
2 weeks visiting her sister Mary in KC and friend Diane in Santa Fe, back for 2
weeks and now we’re both headin’ south to catch Fall colors. One of our 1st
trips together was to the Smokies in Spring 1973 when we were still living in
Wisconsin: Mammoth Cave KY, thru Tennessee and The Hermitage, Asheville, Great
Smoky Mountains Nat’l Park, Blue Ridge Parkway, back to WI thru West Virginia.
Flowers in the mountains & gorges were beautiful, and we’ve wanted to get
back in the Fall. Not such a wide-ranging trip this time, focusing on the Blue
Ridge Parkway and Smokies.
Joined by good friend Marlene, whose daughter Lisa lives
in Charlotte where we’ve planned a stop to see friends Carl & Betty (forgot to
check on their gendered bathroom policy; hopefully we won’t have to boycott
like other events in NC).
Marlene has successfully recuperated from a knee injury; we’ve assured her
we’ll stop if she sees things of interest to her: “If you see something, say
something.”
