Highlights of the Gatlinburg trip last weekend for me, other than being with 19 family members in a luxury mountainside cabin: hiking trails and roads every day, in the park and near the cabin; driving the Cade's Cove loop, despite the fact I have the world's worst luck in seeing a bear (there are supposed to be bears in the Smokies, and for that matter Denali, right?); watching a movie (even if it WAS "Frozen," which I hadn't seen before and it wasn't THAT bad) on the really big screen in the cabin's theatre room - I need one of those in the house; shopping in Gatlinburg - didn't take me long to see most of the downtown shops and I spent about three minutes in the record store, which was disappointing in its stock of music and more of a head shop than a music store (I almost got a contact high just from being in there); and stopping on the way back at the KFC Cafe in Corbin, Ky., where Clark County's own Harland Sanders had his original store close by. I also really enjoyed the nightly gatherings around the firepit outside, talking and watching the kids roast marshmallows for s'mores, the younger ones and some older "kids." It's the first time we've done anything like that as a family with the whole local Bowles clan. Hopefully it won't be the last...
Now that I'm some distance removed from the trip back home, which was a nightmare and a whole other story, I can concentrate on the good memories part...
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