North Bound & a Misty River Pit stop : The Ledford-Smith Adventures, Pt. 3

Misty River, originally uploaded by knledford.

As we were pulling out of the driveway at the Olympic Center my car somehow took a mind of it's own and went right, towards Copperhill, Tn.

Thinking back, I'm not sure why, I just thought if we'd come this far, might as well hop back behind the wheel and go a bit further. That bit of idiotic logic seemed to point the way through the rest of the journey because where ever we were we seemed to want to go a bit further. We drove through Andrews & Murphy, Tn... both charming little places.

Murphy was a happening little town, little side street shops and views in the distance of mountains. I'm not really sure why we didn't stop there and have a look around, thinking back it seems a bit retarded to waste the opportunity. We saw a lot of great photo ops, yet we just drove on...

This photo here was taken somewhere along the Ocoee River just past Murphy. As we were taking pictures there one of the passenger trains steamed by loaded with on lookers. It seemed like such a great way to travel, relaxing on a train, cars with beds and restaurants, comfy seats and huge windows just right for sight seeing. Trying our best to get a good photo of it as it past, we came home empty handed, to say the least...