First stop for the day was at Corbin, Kentucky - at Colonel Sander's original restaurant. What more can I say? Actually, I will say one more thing - it still functions as a KFC, and some of the things on their menu were eye-openers to me - eg I've never seen Chicken Livers on a KFC menu before this!
Long drives today through some nice scenery and some not so nice, with a lunch stop at a "Cracker Barrel" restaurant for lunch. Paul and I both managed to get a nice, reasonably sized meal - of course the reasonable size is the achievement here. For example, the other couple we sat with thought they had a reasonably sized meal too - until the waitress brought out the dessert that automatically came with it!!
I also bought a nice blouse at their gift shop - you come across some good clothes in surprising places here.
After this, we went just down the road to the Museum of Appalachia. It's very well set out, although some of their smaller indoor displays are in desperate need of some sort of conservation work. Overall though, well worth the stop.
There are quite a few buildings on site, all quite legitimate samples of Appalachian building - except for this one which was built for the Daniel Boone TV show:
Then, another fairly long drive into Tennessee, to our motel for the next two nights. We're staying in Gatlinburg - famous to us for its mention in "A Boy Named Sue" (and Paul has been driving me nuts talking about Gatlinburg in mid July!!) but for Americans it's a gateway into the Smoky Mountains. To be blunt, the part we're staying in is a very pretty tourist trap - the main road is miles (and I'm not exaggerating here) of souvenir shops, food shops mostly selling things made of sugar, and other tourist attractions. However, we went for a walk around town and enjoyed ourselves doing all the touristy things you do in a place like this :-)
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