Stories, photographs, travel notes, and safari reflections from Doug & Marcy

Alone Together at a Famous Landscape

Just musing here, but this blog post is meant to be a gentle affirmation favoring proper touristing. So far on this trip, it’s been nice people all the way down.  Maybe it is that the high season of bad behavior has not fully arrived, and also, Marcy and I tend to avoid the most crowded […]

Heavenly Sunlight

Marcy’s Blog Maybe it’s yet another sign of getting older…there are a lot of those these days. As I came upon one of my favorite early morning spots yesterday, overwhelming nostalgia took over, and I was flooded with memories stretching way back to my early childhood. It came to me instantly upon seeing the beautiful […]

The Regular Crowd Shuffles in …

Snatches from Billy Joel’s song  “The Piano Man” came to mind as we fell in line behind the other cars queueing up at the Cades Cove Loop Road gate.  The “crowd shuffling in” song lyrics didn’t fit the happy story of our day, but Billy Joel is what played in my mind when I reflected on […]

A THANKSGIVING TO REMEMBER

A very different Thanksgiving! Our children and their families were unable to join us for the traditional Thanksgiving dinner because they were enjoying the day with their in-laws. Knowing that I would probably feel a little glum and lonely, I thought it would be the perfect time to check off a bucket list item…hiking to […]

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