Category: I81
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Driving to New Orleans
April 28, 2022 Next week I am doing a 5-day photography/cultural workshop with Mark Zablotsky Photography in New Orleans. Mark lived in New Orleans for two years while doing his Periodontics residency in the 80’s, and he has been back many times for continuing education. I could have flown down, but didn’t want to, or…
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Driving to The Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 It’s a 7-8-hour drive to the Smokies from Charlottesville, depending on how you go and where you are going, but Martha wanted me to break it up, so I booked a night in Highland Haven Campground outside Roanoke. I went down 29, which is pleasant enough. You just have to be…
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Interstate 81 to Baileyton KOA
Saturday, August 7, 2021 We were on our way to Cades Cove Campground in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park for two weeks. The first week was with the “the grandchildren”. They really are friends, Karen and Nathan’s children who we have known for a long time. We like to take them for a week…
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Drive From Nashville to Hungry Mother State Park
Thursday, March 25, 2021 It was a grueling drive from Nashville on I40 and 81 to Hungry Mother State Park in Virginia. Traffic was heavy, and the rain was coming down so hard, I never took my windshield wipers off high speed all day. Everyone likes to pull right in front of you after they…