Being at Smoky’s!

Mountains calling!

I never had a reason to visit mountains unless I wanted to go for hiking, or friends have planned a picnic. Been lived near a National park (Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Mumbai); mountains have never fancied me much. It is like easier the access, the lesser the respect for it; and more difficult it is to achieve; you become more interested in it.

Anyways, let me come back to Smoky. Since, I came to Nashville, USA; I have been hearing a lot about Smokys… Smoky Mountains in Tennessee State, USA have always been the center of many discussions that I have been involved. People talked about how beautiful it is, and how colorful it is during falls…And, animals present in the mountains, in particular bears…It had fascinated me for a long time, and had decided to visit it some-time.

Finally at Mountains!

So, within two weeks, I planned every-thing, and I was at mountains along with my family! My Smoky’s trip turned out to be awesome…

I reached there Friday evening after a drive of four hours, and straight away went for Roaring Fork Motor trail…That was awesome…Driving the Car amid slopes, and narrow roadway was good experience…And, then some of the points showed a good display of colors on the mountain!

I realized that I have booked a very good Condo…This was located very close to Ober Gatlinburg on the top! It was very good view of mountains and downhill from the top! We could click pictures…

And, then by evening; things changed drastically…Snow fall began sometime in the evening…and then it continued till 1 PM the next day…It was awesome view experiencing Snow-fall on the top…Watching trees and mountains covered with Snow was great!

On Sunday, things got better…covered a lot of attractions in the downtown (Skylift, Trolly, Ripley’s)…and then went for Sugarland Visitor Center thinking that Cades Cove loop road is closed…However got to know that it was open via White River Road…We did not face any traffic during the entire journey until we got into Cades Cove loop road…But this place was called scenic loop for some reason…Mountain was clearly visible with minimum 5 range of colors with snow layer at the top forming one of it…That was awesome view!

Overall it was fantastic journey…Going to make it again during summers.