If you spend any appreciable time in the South, and especially if you drive off of the interstates and on the US routes-you are more than likely to pass a barn looking like this:
Well, this weekend the S.O. and I did the circuit of the Tennessee mountains, covering 527 miles in two days and ending up back home-via Rock City.
First, however, we drove up to Tellico Plains-as I wanted to stake out the fly fishing if fate forces me to be here for another spring. We were slightly delayed, when we came across this huge flea market-and SOMEBODY-insisted we stop:
We lost at least a valuable hour of daylight there.
Getting back on the road we finally made it to Tellico Plains and the Tellico River-from which we began the ascent up the Cherohala Skyway.
Back in the time when I was a young boy and my father was taking me fishing on Tellico River-the road was just another mountain road. Then-some time in the 1980’s, someone seized on the idea that making it and the Tail of the Dragon a mecca for bikers was somehow a good thing.
As a result, bikers are every where on both roads:
Still, the scenery is nice:
Especially at Indian Boundary Lake:
Along the way back, we drove back down 129 and the Tail of the Dragon-fighting bikers all the way. Including having to wait a while -while a wrecked motorcycle was pulled away out of the ditch. ( The biker looked ok though).
We then stayed the night in Athens Tennessee-with the intent of exploring Chattanooga and Rock City the next day.
Stay tuned for Rock City pix.
Dude, I would have stopped for the market too! Maybe they even have those little wooden frog things which make a frog noise with a stick. Looooove them!