Rise in Elevation: The Ledford-Smith Saga Pt. 6

Because the night time, is the right time.... to smother someone with a pillow... according to Ray Charles... well, he said something like that anyway. The nights sleep in the same room with Rachel was rather interesting. I crawled into bed, the lights off and the TV on... do you know that light the tv puts off? Kind of an odd sort of glow? Well, Rachel was laying in her bed and she was blabbing on and on about something and while she was blabbing she kept moving her eyes. Well, she was in line just right with the TV light because it made her eyes look like they were bugging out of her head, and with them twitching she looked like something out of a horror movie. The very sight of them creeped me out so that I turned over towards the wall and tried to ignore her and soon fell right to sleep. Luckily she didn't do any real snoring, only a few mins of light piggy sounds before dropping off again.

The next morning we got up early and gathered our stuff together to leave. We went down and ate a free breakfast on the hotel of cereal, muffins and apple juice, then hit the road to tackle the Great Smokey Mountains. We managed to catch just the right morning like in just the right spots it seemed. Along the path we traveled across a professional travel photographer who gave us some pointers on where to go next. What a great life she must have! Traveling all over the world getting paid to be on vacation and take incredible photographs of the best places known to man. In my next life that's what I'd like to come back to be... a Travel Photographer!

This image here was taken along a pull off only half way to the top of the mountain. There was a light fog mixed with low clouds and early morning sun which mixed to create such a great view. The fall colors weren't in full bloom as of then but our weather has been so dry that I do believe it won't get much better than this before the trees are bare. The temperature was just perfect, an average of 50 degrees on top of the mountain, the wind blowing just enough to make the experience enjoyable and all the tourists running around in fur coats... all those except me, I wore my t-shirt the whole time and I loved it!

Read more about the top of the world tomorrow!