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Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Smokies Part 3: Cades Cove

Today, we made the one hour trek from our cabin to Cades Cove. Cade was a bit woozy by the time we made it there after traversing the mountain roads: “My belly hurts, I don’t want to see my cove.”

Nonetheless, we enjoyed driving the 11 mile loop and making several stops along the way. The day was absolutely beautiful. 

Lunch beforehand (and ice cream, of course):



John Oliver Cabin, stop 1. It’s thought to be the oldest human built structure still standing in the Cove. 


We saw the Park Ranger covering berries someone had planted at the edge of the woods to attract bears. She directed our attention to these inhabitants of the house:



Stop at the old Methodist Church, which includes a door for women and men, customary at the time:





Whitehead Place, Lyla’s favorite: “This could really be nice if it was fixed up a little.”


In the corn crib across the road:


Cade was a real whittler today...he was super excited about his new pocket knife (Photo credit: Lance):



Here are a few we took along the beautiful way:







Words just can’t say how much I loved this day. 

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