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Hey everyone, here we are in the Great Smokey Mountain NP. 1200 miles down the road from Boston. On our way we have been to Washington DC, that was a drive - 10 hours, arrived in A major thunderstorm, had to set up camp at 8pm. What you might call character building!!! The following day we went into DC, visited the White House, US monument, WW2 memorial and the Air and Space Museum - to satisfy the geek amountst us!!! After a second night camped in the rain, we set of for Shenandoah NP and drove along skyline drive to another campsite halfway down the park. This park had a female black bear and two cubs nearby, so we had to store all our food in a bear box - needless to say we had a restless night. Luckily we missed the bears but did manage to see some deer, chipmunks and a racoon. We have managed to make a fire and cook our own tea at each site we have been, not bad for two townies!!
Following day we finished the drive through shenandoah and joined the Blue Ridge Parkway (another scenic mountain drive). 6 hours later and not halfway we stopped and asked directions to a lodge listed in our trusty guide. It turned out to be full, but the woman at the lodge (Nancy) tried her best to find us a room before offering us her last room for the princely sum of £10 - she collects foreign notes. Nancy turned out to be a ball, she made us feel right at home and even let us do some washing. She then told us about Christophers pizza place where they played Blue Grass music every night. We had some amazing pizzas and found out what blue grass music was - not bad as it goes. When we got back we shared a couple of drinks with Nancy and her neighbour Daryled (spelling???) and put the world to rites. Lovely people who we will certainly visit again if we are in the area.
Today we have driven down to Cherokee and are camping for two nights to have a break from the open road. Tomorrow we are visiting some of the cultural highlights of this area. Will keep you all posted on how that goes.
Hope anyone who reads this is well. We are having a ball.........
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