The Bible Belt

Rafi and I took a road trip 2 weeks ago. The target destination was a few nights of camping in Great Smoky Mountains National Park(in Tennessee and North Carolina) but the trip entire put 4000km on our crappy Pontiac G6 rental and took us through Cincinnati, Louisville, Nashville, Knoxville, Cherokee and Pittsburg. It was a nice, fun, cheap weeklong trip...we may have missed the big terrorist bust and the start of the World Cup(aka The Great Car-Window Flag Racket) but we did get to see the famous Knoxville Sunsphere and some wild turkey...of which none of the following pictures are:


(above)Nashville

(above)Louisville...ask Rafi how to pronounce it right...he learned from seeing the movie "Elizabethtown"

(above)The new Grand Ole Opry. We caught the Opry...it was a surprising highlight for me.

(above)Entrance/Exit of the park.

(above)Cades Cove...a popular drive within the park.

(above)Sunset in the higher elevations of the park.

(above)Mountain Laurel buds at the summit of the "Chimney Tops" hike.

(above)The summit of the "Chimney Tops"

(above)My favorite shot. Some waterfall.