I can't believe we have been here for over a week, time has flown by...I guess it's because we're having so much fun! Before we left the Great Smokey Mountains we decided to try white water rafting so we booked ourself into a centre near Gatlingburg, where we stayed at a really nice resort and where we had a brilliant time playing hill billy golf, eating Mexican (not Mexicans) and enjoying some sun. The white water rafting was super fun! (We are slowly becoming more and more American with the phrases we use). We encountered grade 4 rapids and had some near falls, but both survived and loved the whole experience. We then made a real start to the journey by leaving North Carolina behind and saying howdie to Tennessee and our first stop was Nashville.
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