As we left you yesterday, we started Day 21 with a drive through The Great Smoky Mountains National Park!We started very early in the morning – hoping to catch a beautiful sunrise and to see the fog lift (the smoke in smoky mountain)!Near the summit, we crossed over from TN to NC! State #16!The bad air across the US continues to follow us! But made for some special vistas and overlooks! This photo is really here to remind us to tell a story! S first visited The Great Smoky Mountains in 1974! He vividly remembers (and his parents confirmed) the story that S wanted to bring the clouds home with him. So he grabbed a screwtop jar and held it out the window and tried fasten the lid quickly! Sadly, clouds don’t want to be captured in glass jars!A tad bit after sunrise!While still in NC, we stopped here for breakfast! This was S’s first Waffle House! We enjoyed it tremendously! The staff was courteous, prompt and fun to chat with! The food was prepared to order, delivered quickly and reasonably priced! The team did their functions well and worked even better as a group! It’s easy to understand why these restaurants are EVERYWHERE!We crossed back into TN and made our way to Chattanooga! Yes there is a Chattanooga Choo-Choo! The train station is now a tourist trap and shopping mall, but it’s still historic!We found this place across the train station! Our Bourbon detour was all too brief! Back to beer!The beer was flat out great! Our waiter (who is walking towards us in the picture above) kept calling the Belgian Wit, a clone of Blue Moon! We had to chastise him – we even rapped his knuckles to get him to stop! The White Shadow is much, much better than Blue Moon! The Bock and the Oatmeal were also standouts!OK! This place is a ridiculously good ice cream parlor! The head ice cream maker is a converted pastry chef who gets inspiration from her global travels! And the staff knew the back story to every flavor and how they came to be! Seriously, the flavors and combos were amazing! If you’re in Chattanooga, you must go here!
We met in San Francisco in December 2013 and were married on Valentine's Day 2016. After two years of marriage, we've decided to trade in corporate life for a global travel adventure and our continued commitment to making a positive difference in the world. Follow our adventure.
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exciting day and great pics……all about the culture!
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exciting day and great pics……all about the culture!
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