88 AND DOIN’ GREAT

88 AND DOIN’ GREAT

Karen and I rented a house in Mountain View, Missouri where the Lyon Clan gathered to celebrate Jack Lyon’s 88 years on this planet. Pa’s four kids and their spouses, three grandkids, one with spouse and one with boyfriend and one great-grandchild made it...

CHILHOWEE RECREATION AREA

Karen and I have passed the Ranger Station on Highway 64 by Parksville/Ocoee Lake many times while traveling between Chattanooga, TN and Charlotte, NC. We never turned off there and took the steep and winding Oswald Road to the top of Chilhowee Mountain because the...
THREE FALLS IN THE PEACH STATE

THREE FALLS IN THE PEACH STATE

For our first, full day of hiking from Ducktown, TN, we head south through McCaysville, GA on Highway 5. It’s a crooked road, the scenery beautifully bucolic and the traffic nonexistent. We are blessed with a partly cloudy, cool day with no rain forecast....