Road Trip

We left Dragonfly in Mobile yesterday and are driving to spend Christmas and New Years with Danielle and Jay in Durham, NC. Amy finishes her sailing job in New Zealand on the 29th and will join us after that. We’re so excited to be all together for the first time since Kathleen and I left Hansen’s Harbor on Labor Day.

Yesterday we did driving tours of Montgomery and Auburn, AL, before spending the night in the Atlanta suburbs. Today we traveled to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which we’re exploring for a couple of days on our way to Durham. We went for a chilly but beautiful hike on the Three Waterfalls Loop, then checked into a motel in Cherokee, NC. Bonus Question: How many waterfalls are on the Three Waterfalls Loop? (answer at end of post). 

As we were walking to dinner, we saw this bull elk crossing the street.

Bonus Question Answer: There are three waterfalls, of course: Juney Whank Falls, Tom Branch Falls, and Indian Creek Falls.