Deborama’s Travels - Cool, amazing, whimsical or mystical places I have travelled to — Part 1

Childhood
When I was a girl, we went on road trips. Once, maybe twice, we flew to Pittsburgh, near to where the rest of the family lived back then. But mostly we drove, or sometimes in the summer we would all go with my Dad on his sales trips through the southeast or we would just go on a family vacation, camping or staying at Howard Johnsons. The most memorable ones were around the Appalachians — the Great Smokies in Tennessee, the Blue Ridge in North Carolina and Virginia, West Virginia and western Pennsylvania. From one vacation, I vividly remember the Natural Bridge in Virginia. Note how tiny the guy standing under it is.

I remember one year we were in Pigeon Forge, TN for Easter. I only remember this because there is a picture. But it’s a picture of our Easter finery and a pretty, sunny day, not a picture of the majestic beauty of the surrounding Great Smoky Mountains. Unfortunately, Pigeon Forge today is so tacky and commercial that there literally is no decent picture of it. So here’s a picture of the mountains a few miles away.