Road Trip - Part 1

With summer behind us and the cooler temps of fall moving in, we though it would be a good time to take a mini vacation over the long weekend and get some fresh air and new scenery. Since the nights have been getting cooler, the leaves were starting to change so we decided our road trip would take us to the Great Smoky Mountains.

It's amazing how fast the troubles and worries of the daily grind will disappear when you are see this at sunrise.
Absolutely no signs of civilization for as far as you can see. It was hard not to day dream of living in a log cabin atop one of these hills.
The narrow road twists and turns with the contours of the mountains. Slow and steady is the way of this trip. I think the slogan "The journey is the destination" was created here.
At the higher elevations, the cooler temps have helped along the changing of the leaves. They weren't at peak color, but they were just fine with us.
Roughly 7 hours after we started, we reached our weekend destination, Gatlinburg TN. This is a small mountain town, very much a tourist attraction, but charming non the less. Our hotel room had a balcony right over the river, we were in walking distance of everything so we were set for the weekend. And we only heard banjos playing at night...