Day Two of our trip - July 19, 2007
We woke up in the beautiful Smoky Mountains and went to the outdoor amphitheater at the base of the cross for our morning devotions. Jane presented us with our visors and spoke of the significance of our "WOW" girls nickname. We were indeed embarking on a walk, even though we used a Ford Explorer; we were going to see many wonders throughout our country, both natural and man-made; and we were all Women of Wakefield. She also thought "WOW" was most appropriate because we would be using that word quite often as we traveled. She was right. We took pictures with our new visors, and we were off.
First stop was Cherokee, because we were only a few miles away, and Kristee had never been. We didn't have time for a major tour so we took in the museum and the Ocanaluftee gift shop. We ate lunch at a nearby restaurant with an outdoor patio that fronted a bubbling stream with an occasional person in an inner tube floating by.
Then we drove across the NC/Tennessee border through the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. We went through Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg before turning south. Both of those towns were jam-packed with tourists and every type of Ripley's attraction, gift shop, and gimmicky business known to man. Please remember we did not head straight out west, or Interstate 40 would have been our main route. Instead, we dropped south for New Orleans, one of Kristee's top three choices, and traveled through a section of Georgia and then into Alabama before calling it a day. Four states in one day, beautiful mountain scenery, really scary hairpin curves-we were the WOW girls. WOW! What a day!
We woke up in the beautiful Smoky Mountains and went to the outdoor amphitheater at the base of the cross for our morning devotions. Jane presented us with our visors and spoke of the significance of our "WOW" girls nickname. We were indeed embarking on a walk, even though we used a Ford Explorer; we were going to see many wonders throughout our country, both natural and man-made; and we were all Women of Wakefield. She also thought "WOW" was most appropriate because we would be using that word quite often as we traveled. She was right. We took pictures with our new visors, and we were off.
First stop was Cherokee, because we were only a few miles away, and Kristee had never been. We didn't have time for a major tour so we took in the museum and the Ocanaluftee gift shop. We ate lunch at a nearby restaurant with an outdoor patio that fronted a bubbling stream with an occasional person in an inner tube floating by.
Then we drove across the NC/Tennessee border through the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. We went through Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg before turning south. Both of those towns were jam-packed with tourists and every type of Ripley's attraction, gift shop, and gimmicky business known to man. Please remember we did not head straight out west, or Interstate 40 would have been our main route. Instead, we dropped south for New Orleans, one of Kristee's top three choices, and traveled through a section of Georgia and then into Alabama before calling it a day. Four states in one day, beautiful mountain scenery, really scary hairpin curves-we were the WOW girls. WOW! What a day!
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