Monday

It's day four in the Smokey Mountains.  Every day so far we've hit one of the major strips of the area in tourist fashion by trolley with all the other thousands of tourists here. 

But today we took the slow way around and drove thru Wears Valley. It's actually a street off the main Parkway that leads to a beautiful drive thru the mountains. 

It's a country setting with farms and fields  of hay with mountains behind. 

All along for miles are hay bales lined in a row that gives the perfect look to the fall October fest season.

Even tho it was a country mountain drive there were quite a few country stops to make. We stopped at Moonshine Ridge Country Store and Cafe to browse around and get a drink. 

The drive was beautiful on a two lane road winding around the mountains and even hairpin curves. 

It was a bear siteing kind of a day. No real bear siteings. Only man made bears.

I loved this one made out of hay bales decorating the front of another country store.

And even the tinyest of bears found.

Then back to camp after an all day ride to take care of the Poochie Dog.