Smokemont morning…crisp and dewy…packing up…saying goodbyes…Oconaluftee…strawberry preserves…yum…Friends of the Smokies, re-up…pulling up the Blue Ridge Parkway.. smooth, powerful…transmission temp, OK…Big Witch Tunnel eleven foot ten inches…Thelonious “Around Midnight”, so cool…35 MPH, not holding anybody back…sometimes 30, bothering nobody…AIRSTREAM, new one, probably 23’, passing ships, Hi brother…
Colors… starting…muted golds…big patch of red Sumac…Green mostly, steep and deep…Higher…Green evergreens…maybe they won’t all die…Rock faces…road cuts and landslides…Balsam Fir…OVER THE TOP
Now down, burned here, many years ago, to the bedrock…scrubby, more rock faces with fringes of yellow and red…rocks weeping and falling down close to the road edge…
Turning here… down 276…new surface…”Unmarked Pavement”…”Loose Gravel”…shoulders dusty…Second gear…winding down…35 MPH, bothering nobody…water is low…sparkles…Davidson River CG…friendly…set up… feels like home…fishing…water low…caught two…dinner…yum…
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