11/18 to 11/21
We had a good time in the Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg Tennessee area. There is every kind of shopping imaginable there including 3 outlet malls. Also the typical tourist shops. We saw three “As seen on TV” stores which have all the stuff you see advertised on TV. It is not at all hard to find a place to eat!! They have every kind of food you could possible think of. The shows do not have well know performers but we did see three very good Christmas shows. Two of them had very inspirational productions of the birth of Christ and the awesomeness of our Great God. We did take a drive up into the “Great Smokey Mountains National Park”. We took a few pictures but not of the fall foliage as most of the leaves were gone. There is a road that goes up to “The Dome” which is the highest point in Tennessee but the road was closed for the season and for repairs. Yesterday it was raining when we got up and still raining when we went to bed. So we pretty much stayed at home. We did go out in the evening for a trolley tour to see the Christmas lights. The windows were so fogged over in the trolley car we could not see much. This morning we are on the road again. We were in rain for a short time, then spitting snow. Then we begin to see snow up on the tops of the hills. Now it is spitting snow but not sticking at all. We see some break in the clouds now and then but it is mostly overcast. We are heading for Savannah, Ga. And hoping the weather will be better there. The leaves have mostly fallen from the trees but once in a while we pass an area of trees that are a dark burnt orange color and they sure stand out. It is still snowing off and on, a very fine snow that doesn’t even show up on the ground. We will be glad to see sunshine if that ever happens. Now we are in a mountainous area and climbing quite high. Just above us we can see they had freezing rain overnight and it has covered everything. A groundcover, Cutzue, (spelling) covers large areas of the land. It is kind of pretty in the summer but very ugly when it dies off in the fall. It is nearly impossible to get rid of once it gets started. As we come into Athens, Ga. the sun is finally shining. It is so good to not have moisture coming down on us. We are making a “pit-stop” tonight at the Wal-mart in Thomson, Ga. Hope we don’t freeze to death.