John Pendley wrote:
> Walt speaks the truth--about everything but staying in
> Gatlinburg (8^). To
> me, they turned a pleasant mountain village into the worst
> tourist trap imaginable
Yes, but we can probably get a cheap hotel for one night. I
personally dispise Gatlinburg. Dolly doesn't do anything for me.
>We stay
> in the much quieter Townsend, TN, near Cade's Cove (don't miss
> it).
Cade's Cove is beautiful, but way too popular. Cosby and
Cataloochie are my favorite spots in the entire park. 'shinin
country though.
> NM, especially the north and northwest parts of the state, is
> wonderful.
I'm personally kinda leaning that direction. Spent a solid week
out there six years ago photographing a fishing magazine
article. We would like to setup and camp for a couple of nights
in a a couple of locations and probably drift up to Colorado
before heading back home. I really like the area. Of course,
Mexican food from New Mexico absolutely rocks!
Brother Bob will set me up with trail maps for the Jeep. May
even join us for a day of rock crawlin in his super-duper
lifted, locked and loaded Jeep.
> If you decide to go in that direction, go on to
> Arizona, a
Maybe, but we don't want to spend our entire vacation driving
down the interstate. Especially in a Jeep.
> Where are you leaving from?
Iowa. Probably the most remote location to mountains and ocean
in the entire country. But we have corn and soybeans.
Walt wrote:
> >Oh, go to the Smokies. Spring, summer and fall, you see the
> >trees, but now, with the leaves on the ground, you see the
> >mountains. There's something special about the Smokies when
> the
> >trees are bare.
Well, yes and no. May-June is probably the best. Gotta fight
the snakes, though. November is the BEST hiking time of the
year, though.
> >Go up the Blue Ridge Parkway from Cherokee, NC, to the Balsam
> >Mountain turnoff, and when you get to the end of the
> pavement,
> >take the 23-mile Heintooga Ridge Road (dirt, but easy) back
> to
> >Cherokee.
Done that in a Pontiac Grand Am. Way cool. Went to do it again
with a 4WD but they had it closed because of major washouts and
trees down. But that was right after a major hurricane had gone
through.
I'm kinda thinking NM, but we are going to discuss it tonight.
AG-Schnozz
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