After leaving Natchez Trace, we drove eastward to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. En route was a 1-hour bumper-to-bumper delay due to 2 overturned trucks, one in the median, one on the shoulder. We had lunch while waiting for the traffic to clear and listened to the funny CB chatter. Stayed in an RV park in Sevierville, TN. Had to drive through Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, quite "kitchsy," all sorts of country music jamborees, dinner shows, amusement parks, even a Louise Mandrell theater. The Great Smokys, however, were just gorgeous. Waterfalls, mountain streams, and trees, trees, trees. Nice and cool in the mountains. We saw our first bear on a short hike to Grotto Falls just off the trail about 50 feet or so. He was a little guy, foraging all by himself, or so
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