Posts Tagged ‘Tennessee’

Where the heck am I?

Friday, June 19th, 2009

A few weekends ago was Farrah’s 2nd hiking adventure in the Smoky Mountain’s National Park. She may have been hiking/camping with a friend, but she wasn’t the only one that got to go on an adventure. I dropped the two women off at Clingman’s Dome on Saturday morning… that was an easy trip, and one I’d made many times before. Knoxville to Maryville, then through Wears Valley and eventually up to the Gap and finally the Dome. The plan was for the women to hike down Forney Ridge spend the night at a camp site and hike back up Forney Creek where I would pick them back up on Sunday. Well, plans changed.

Rather than hiking back up the trail due to injury they ended up continuing down the mountain following Forney Creek to Whiteoak Branch to Lakeshore Trail eventually coming out at the Tunnel at the end of “The Road to Nowhere”. Yes, there really is a road to nowhere. The road is actually called “New Fontana Road” but some maps have it listed as “Lakeview Drive”, which caused a bit of confusion and panic but that’s a story for another day. ;)

The Road to Nowhere is located in Bryson City, a town that until Sunday I had never been to before. Thankfully I had a navigator that new where to go, and had hiked most (if not all) of the trails in the park. To the rescue we went through towns I had never heard of, on roads I had never traveled, and through some very nice scenery. Just a rough list of places I was Sunday:

  • Maryville
  • Highway 129 aka “The Dragon”
  • The Tunnel at the end of The Road to Nowhere
  • Cherohala Skyway
  • Tellico Plains
  • Madisonville
  • Sweetwater

It was quite a trip. I’m not even sure how long I was in the Explorer driving around, it was at least six or seven hours worth of driving.

Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey-ey, goodbye!

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

I was actually hoping for an angry mob with torches and pitchforks, but I guess a resignation will have to do. The University of Tennessee’s (Knoxville) head [football] coach Phillip Fulmer (aka Fat Phil) has decided to resign after this season.

Good bye!

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Tax Free Weekend Morons

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

So, here I sit in a hot truck at the local BestBuy. Not because I care about buying a cheap computer during Tennessee’s “tax free weekend”, but because I wanted to buy a couple of movies that Target didn’t have.

It’s 15 minutes before the store with overpriced electronics opens, and so far I’ve counted over 100 poor souls. Even as I type this on my iPhone the line continues to grow.

These people are living under the illusion that “tax free” is a good deal. Maybe it would be elsewhere. Someplace where the price wasn’t already high, and where they didn’t jack up the price to take advantage of the state sale. I’ll leave the fools to their grand illusion. I just want a few movies.

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