Change of Plans

The one great thing about going on a road trip is if you see something interesting or think of some you want to do you can deviate from the orignal plan. We were talking early in the week about other things we want to do, other Bucket List items. Wendy said she wanted to go Zip Lining. For those of you who don't know what that is, you get hooked into a bunch of straps, tethered to a metal wire rope that is strung out to a wooden platform (the landing zone) and then you jump off a perfectly nice platform. Since we were headed for Gatlinburg and the Great Smoky Mountains I got on my smartphone and found that we could Zipline in the Great Smoky Mountains. So, we elimated the trip to Charleston and headed for Tennessee. Now, I'm the route planner and so I will admit I didn't check to see how long it would take to cross over the mountains. Looking at the map it looked like about an hour, no problem we had plenty of time to get there for our appointed time. WRONG! Do you know why they call them "Smoky" mountains? I think they should call them "Dewey" mountains as you go so high you are in the clouds. In addition it was raining part of the the time and the route is switch back curves and up and down hills, etc. We had to reschedule our Zip Lining time but we finally got there. Picture Reference - GSM.