Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, May 5, 2009

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Gallery: Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee and North Carolina
May 6, 2009
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May 5, 2009
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Twelve-year old girl of family of nine living in one-room hut built over the chassis of abandoned Ford truck in open field on U.S. Route 70 between Camden and Bruceton, Tennessee. Near backward Tennessee section. View also shows one of the small boys in family; the girl is dressed in a meal sack

1936 March

photographer: Carl Mydans.

Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection
(Library of Congress)

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Laurel Falls Trail

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee

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day 71

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

May 5, 2009

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day 62

Old Faithful Hamilton’s Store

Devils Den Paddling

Campfire at Elkmont

Blacktail Plateau Drive

Heavy flow

Green River Ferry

Abyss Pool

Smoky Mountains on a cloudy day

Still recovering

Cedar Falls at Petit Jean

Lake Fort Smith Campground

Near the end of the season

Cave Formations

Milky Blue

Autumn Grass

Graffiti in the Park

Leaves on Lake Bailey

Foot Bridge

Sorghum furnace

Mountain Laurel

Canary Springs

Another blog that I’m trying to post to on a regular basis is Haw Creek Out ‘n About. I’m currently only posting photographs from our travels there.

The images posted here are photos that were posted on Haw Creek Out ‘n About over the last month.

All of my photos that I publish here and on Haw Creek Out ‘n About are from my online photo galleries. They are randomly selected and only used one time. Photos published on Haw Creek Out ‘n About will not be published on Exit78, except for those use for announcements of new galleries, and vice verse.  Some of the photos may have been been posted previously, before I had established the galleries.

While I would like to publish other material in addition to the photos, I have so many photos that I really want to focus on getting the photo galleries built.

I suppose that I could just post all of the photos on Flickr or some other service. However, the photos are intended to be integral part of my Haw Creek web site, — which will eventually include information to go with the photos, so I want the photo galleries on Haw Creek.

I hope to be adding more photo galleries to Haw Creek soon. When they are up, I’ll announce them on each of my blogs.

day 32

Cades Cove Scenic Loop
Great Smoky Mountains National Park

May 5, 2009

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day 28

I’ve just completed the first photo gallery from our May trip. Images in it are from  Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I will likely post some of those photos here, on occasion, along with images from other photo galleries of our travel.

A “drive-through” barn in the Cable’s Mill area of Cades Cove

Corn Crib – Corn was dried on the stalk and then stored here still on the cob. Corn was the major food source for both humans and livestock.

John P. Cable grist and saw mill

An overshot water wheel mill used to grind corn into corn meal and wheat into flour. The water wheel could also be used to power saw mills as well. After the saw mills, homes were almost exclusively of frame construction. As well, most owners of log homes bought lumber for siding to cover the logs of their “old-fashioned” homes.

Day 5

There are more images at Out ‘n About

We are currently camped near Staunton, Virginia. Tomorrow we will be camping in a small campground in Virginia Beach and will be visiting my Mom in Norfolk.

This hasn’t been the greatest week for a traveling and camping trip. When we are camping, we like to take hikes and we only got a couple in. It’s been raining every day and every night — not continuously, but heavy at times and often enough to make things a little difficult.

When we’re traveling, we stop every couple of hours or so and find some place to walk.

Sometimes, we are able to walk at rest areas. When we are able to do that, we make from a couple of “laps” on the walkways to several if the walkways are limited. It helps loosen us up and makes the trip go better. Today we were able to walk at three rest areas. One of them had a “pet trail” that turned into a half mile loop trail into the woods and we had already done the generous rest area walkways.

Off the interstate highways, rest areas are few and far between. We’ve found other places that work well for walks. Shopping malls, of course, are good. However, we’ll often stop at a “big box store” like Walmart, Lowes, or Home Depot, and make several laps around the inside of the store.

We also walk at campgrounds. Walking the entire campground that we were at in Great Smoky Mountain National Park was probably about a mile, which we did 3 evenings, I think. The campground we are at now is at least that, but also has a rather generous uphill section.

We did get several short walks in that on a couple of days when we were able to dodge the storms. Yesterday afternoon when we the campground, the rain had stopped, so we decided to do one of the closest trails, a 2.6 mile round-trip hike to Laurel Falls. It was nice. I’ll post pictures later.

So far as food, I generally don’t overeat too much when we are traveling. We’ve eaten out twice, McDonald’s and Subway. We’ve been eating sandwiches mostly for lunch and regular food for supper. I’ve been eating less snacks, I think.

See other participants’ results at Blog to Fit – Wednesday Weigh-In.

We are currently camping in the Great Smokey National Park.  We were hoping to do some hiking but the rain has made longish hikes something we’re not willing to try.  We have no desire to get thouroughly soaked.

There are more images at Out ‘n About

Stopped at a rest area on I40 in Tennessee

We left yesterday morning and got to the campground around 4 PM.

I’ll be posting a few photos from the trip on this blog, but will be posting about the trip — along with more photos — on my Out ‘n About blog.  The first post there is titled On the road in rainy Tennessee.

Tomorrow or the next day we’ll be traveling on to Great Smoky National Park where we’ll be camping several days and, hopefully, taking a few hikes.  With current weather forecast, that might be iffy.  With the recent rain, some of the falls in the mountains ought to be spectacular.

Traveler's Health Alert posted at rest area