Wayne Harrison wrote:
"Ken Fortenberry" wrote:
The Smokies have lost the brilliant colors of fall by now.
...
the laxity of our border patrol is somewhat disappointing. orange and blue
usually trips the alarms, big time.

I must have caught your border guards by surprise coming in from
the south instead of the north. ;-)

I got off I-75 at Cleveland, Tennessee and followed 64/74 along
the Ocoee River. I gotta tell ya, that little piece of Tennessee
is almost as gorgeous as The Old North State, no offense intended. ;-)
It was a beautiful, sunny Sunday for a drive along a road I'd
never traveled. Lots and lots of kayakers on the river and doing
shuttles on the road, which is better, to my mind, than all the
suicidal motorcyclists on the Tail of the Dragon that I encounter
on my usual route into North Carolina.

--
Ken Fortenberry