My southeast tour part I: Townsend, TN
August 11, 2008
My solo vacation itinerary included Townsend, TN, just outside of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, plus Beaufort, SC and Savannah GA. I left my house in Pensacola around 6 a.m. CST on a Sunday. My Saturn Vue was fully loaded with crap — bicycle, yoga mat, water-jogging belt, noodle, aqua gloves, cooler, clothes, tote bag full of food like cereal and Triscuits, cutting board, apples, yadda yadda. According to MapQuest, I had 519.89 miles to go. By 3 p.m. EST, I was checking into Headrick’s River Breeze motel. Townsend is known as the “quiet side” of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. And compared to Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, quiet it is.
