Today I’m exploring the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This park is beautiful. I started with a tiny hike to Cataract Falls. This was only a quarter mile out and back from the visitors center. The falls were nice and the hike was easy. My next hike is up to Laurel Falls. On the drive […]
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The plan for today is to get down to Knoxville, TN. On the way down, I stopped in Corbin, KY to see where Kentucky Fried Chicken started. The museum was closed but they had some info on signs around the site. After a couple more hours of driving there was a turnout to the Norris […]
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The last couple of days have been driving. There is nothing in WV besides some mountains. It was a really fun drive though. I did get the heebie jeebies when I was going up the mountain at one point. It was a 1.5 lane road all the way up the mountain with not guardrail. I […]
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Today was boat day. I was in Norfolk and Virginia Beach, VA. I pulled into Portsmouth last night and got a haircut. I would not recommend Portsmouth, VA. It’s pretty rough. Lots of strip clubs and nightclubs. I ended up doing the whole sightseeing thing in the hardest way possible. I started in Portsmouth, went […]
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Since I’ve been to Washington DC before and had done all the touristy stuff I wasn’t going to spend more than the day here. If you’ve never been, definitely take your time and see all the monuments, buildings, and museums. Some of the museums are free so take advantage. Take the subway everywhere because parking […]
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Today I visited Baltimore. There were a couple things I found to check out here. Right by where I parked was the Shot Tower. This was a tower that they dropped molten lead through a screen at the top into a water tank at the bottom to create shot for muskets. On my way to […]
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Today was mostly a driving day. I had to stay in PA last night so I could hit up a brewery there to keep up my breweries in all 50 states. I started at Iron Hill Brewery. They are a regional brewery/restaurant. they did make some really good beers for a restaurant type place. Now […]
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I made it to Philadelphia, PA last night. There isn’t a lot I wanted to see here so I knew I could get out the same day. Being here on Thanksgiving has positives and negatives. The main positive is that there are not people almost anywhere. The bad side is everything is closed. I parked […]
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Today was my last day in NYC and the day of riding trains. I had a lot of the city to cover. I need to go to Brooklyn to see the Mets stadium and the Worlds Fair, then up to the Bronx to see Yankee Stadium, then back down to Manhattan to go through central […]
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