Berga When I was a child of maybe ten or eleven, I remember hearing a bunch of teenagers talking about a recent camping trip they had been on. There was a stream by their campsite, and they walked up the stream, catching every frog they could, and then smashing them. “We musta gotten fifty frogs!” they […]
Tag Archives: Great Smoky Mountain National Park
Being Pro-Life In Tennessee.
30-Apr-14Knocking on Heaven’s Door.
29-Apr-14Mégara We woke up in Sevierville and walked over to a pancake breakfast place. It was indicative of this area of Tennessee: the entire approach to Great Smoky Mountains National Park is lined with tourist-themed businesses, motels and restaurants and putt-putt golf places, in a profusion that I could hardly believe. Many people complain of the […]
I woke up early – one of the perks of camping – and hit the road immediately. I wanted to visit Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I was wary of paying in order to get my nature-fix, but I figured that the National Park designation meant that I would see real, undisturbed forest. It was […]