Fall in the Great Smoky Mountains
This is Dogwood Cottage, our home away from home in the Great Smoky Mountains for a week.
Our annual trip to the mountains has been just what it’s supposed to be: beautiful and restful. My sister, my dog, and I arrived at Dogwood Cottage in Haywood County Monday for a bit of R&R. And that’s what we’ve been doing.
Not a bad view from the porch of our cottage, is it?
You could add another “R” to that. Along with resting and relaxing, we’ve been riding. We went into downtown Waynesville on Tuesday. By the way, downtown Waynesville is very dog friendly. There’s a dog bakery downtown. Tyler thoroughly enjoyed it.
We’re tailgating on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
On Wednesday, we stopped by a KFC (just like we used to when we’d go on trips as children with Mom and Dad), and had a tailgating picnic on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Tyler relaxes while chewing on a hoof on the porch.
What’s in store for today? We’re thinking about a trip to Cherokee. Later in the week, we’ll hike up to Max Patch on the Appalachian Trail.
Monday was a day made for Tyler
Today was Tyler’s day in the mountains.
We found downtown Waynesville (NC) to be quite a dog-friendly town. Lots of folks had their dog on a leash.and I’m guessing that most of them were tourists, just like me. He got to sniff and bark at a lot of other dogs. And they each had the opportunity to sniff Tyler too.
Tyler also got to meet another Norwegian elkhound, the first for him since leaving his siblings in May 2007. His new friend’s name was Gunnar. He got to meet people, get petted, and even enter a Dog Bakery, where he sniffed all the treats and rawhide bones. He gobbled up the food that fell off the table while we were eating lunch at The Patio restaurant in downtown Waynesville.
By the time we got back to the cottage in the Fines Creek area of Clyde, Tyler was tired, and needed to conk out.
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