[LMB] OT: Tourism, Blue Ridge Parkway, etc.

[Patricia A. Swan]

At 05:56 PM 7/4/2006, Kevin Kennedy wrote:
>>      I would like to provide him with an excessively comprehensive
>>list of the cool things he can see between Washington State and
>>Georgia {snip} and the Blue Ridge Parkway
>>are on my list so far.

>>      Sincerely,
>>      Christopher

If he's coming over 441 from Knoxville, TN to pick up the 
beginning of the Parkway, he'll be only about 12 miles from my 
house.  Since he's planning to end up in Atlanta, you might want 
to have him head up toward the other end of the Parkway and come 
back toward Cherokee because US 441 will take him South right 
into I-985, and then into I-85 into Atlanta if he's aiming for a 
town on the Eastern side of the City.  If he's going to be 
teaching at Young Harris or someplace on the West or Northwest 
side of the city, you might want to send him on US441 to US 74 
West, and then down from Murphy, NC into Georgia through 
Blairsville.  While he's in Cherokee (if he uses that section of 
the Parkway) he can see the outdoor Drama UNTO THESE HILLS, and 
the Occonoluftee Indian Village which is a recreation of the 
historical arts and crafts of the Cherokee, and the Museum of 
the Cherokee Indian, which are all clustered together along the 
same mountainside.  And you can have him get in touch with me at 
both the zafaran at sff.net and/or zafaran at fastmail.fm addresses if 
he wants a local to play tour guide since I live beside the 
Great Smokey Mountains National Park, the southern terminus of 
the Parkway, and the Qualla Boundary (which is the reservation 
of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indian).  We're close enough 
to "Hot"-lanta that we go there for meetings and day-trip 
shopping runs, and the college kids at Western go down there 
clubbing and such, so--depending on where he ends up around 
Atlanta, it's just as easy for him to come back up here on a day 
trip.  If he's a John Ringo fan, I can show him the sites of the 
battles in the Fleet Strike series while I'm at it (A Hymn 
Before Battle, Gust Front, When the Devil Dances, Hells Faire}.

Pat in Western North Carolina
(CC to Christopher)


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