Author: overCLEvelanders

Family of 7 overlanding in North America in Lexus GX460 and Ford F150 Raptor

Day 2 Camp Look Rock, Great Smoky Mountain NP

Sam in the bivy
Bivy, starting to rain
Our two sites. Sam is in the Bivy on the one tent pad. The tent is on the tent pad of the Lexus’ site.
Josie fell back asleep this morning on Ed’s cot in the tent
View down the road of our two sites
Escargot
Interesting view of the pull through sites
Site 36
She was cutting through the woods between our two sites
4 kids waiting on 5th kid to get ready so we could eat
Ed put Josie to work zipping up the tent and rain fly
Josie’s new Great Smoky Mountain NP sunglasses
From then candy store in Gatlinburg
Erin’s pickle from the candy store
bluegrass band outside of Ole Smokey Moonshine
Watermelon Slide cotton candy from the street fair in Maryville, TN
Some kind of street fair or Home Days festival in Maryville, TN
From lunch at Bluetick Tavern in Maryville. Dinner tonight was Mellow Mushroom in downtown Gatlinburg.

We finished off the night with the Moonshine Mountain coaster.

Day 1 4am. We made it to camp!!

After a long drive and a delightful 11pm dinner at Denny’s (which was a FIRST for all of the girls) we finally made it to the campground in the Smokey Mountains at 4am. The camp sites here seem pretty well-spaced out, though the guy in the campsite next to us is snoring loud enough that we had to wonder if it was a bear. Erin and Ava are in the rooftop tent on the Lexus. Josie, Lucy, and I are in the Super Pacific. Ed and Rocco are on cots in the tent and Sam is going full-tilt with the camping experience and he’s off a bit on his own in a bivy. I hope I get up early enough to get a picture of that.

Erin and Ava, all smiles at 4:30am

Good night!