Philip Marquardt » Vacation http://philipmarquardt.com Web Programming and Development Blog Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:20:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Smokey Mountains http://philipmarquardt.com/2008/08/23/smokey-mountains/ http://philipmarquardt.com/2008/08/23/smokey-mountains/#comments Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:55:23 +0000 Phil http://philipmarquardt.com/?p=29 My girlfriend, Andrea, and I vacationed in the Smokey Mountains for a little get away a week before classes started. We stayed in a cabin on Deep Creek. The creek wasn’t too deep, but it was fun none the less. The national park was just a mile from our campground where you could carry your tube up the path next to the creek and tube back down to the car. The creek has some whitewater parts that ended up throwing me off my tube, but a lot of times the tube got stuck on the rocks



The views were incredible, we were surrounded by mountains, streams, lakes, rivers, and waterfalls. Our cabin was about the size of my kitchen and apparently slept 4 people. There was a futon and a bed above the kitchen, but I would guess it would be cramped with 4 people. It was bearable with 2 people and a dog. Mia (the dog) loved the creek, but hated staying the cabin alone while we went tubing and hiking.





We also saw some kids using one of the waterfalls as a slide. We probably would’ve joined in, but we didn’t have our swim suits on anymore.



All in all it was a good vacation, but I think next time I would like to tube on a deeper creek/river and stay in more suitable accommodations.

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