November 8 - 2017 Heiskell, Tennessee

On Wednesday (November 8), we headed for the Smoky Mountains. We left the campgrounds, looking forward to a peaceful day in the beautiful nature of the mountains. We did find it (more about that later), but before we got there, we ran in to Sevierville and Pigeon Forge!

This is about 10 miles of shopping outlets (cheapest prices anywhere), specialty stores (biggest store anywhere), restaurants (best food anywhere), hotels, entertainment, amusement parks…. Glitz, glimmer, lights, noise…. One big circus! The town of Sevierville is the hometown of Dolly Parton, and her amusement park – Dollywood, is in Pigeon Forge. The whole place had her “personality” (the more glitter the better).

It was way over the edge, but somehow we were drawn into it. Guess that is what it is all about:-)

The best way to describe the place, is to show it in pictures. So, here are some….

These pictures were taken in the Christmas store. There were so many decorations, it was hard to find single ornaments.

Wonder what this building looks like inside?

The Hatfields and McCoys were 2 hillbilly families, who had a feud (nabokrig) going on for years. I wonder if they have food fights here?

They even had half of the Titanic!

Hollywood's version of Mount Rushmore

And more Christmas decorations. This time not at the Christmas store, but at a place, where they were putting on a Christmas show.

Two quite different hobbies (fritidsaktivititer) in one store.
We don't really see the connection!

We could have taken a helicopter ride. This is one of 3 helicopters, that we saw, advertising rides. 



The worlds biggest knife store - of course :-),
and if a knife won't do it, maybe a Sig Sauer will !!

To be continued….

Written by Mary