{"id":1245,"date":"2009-08-15T19:17:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T00:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2009-08-15T19:17:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T00:17:22","slug":"day-5-journeys-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/2009\/08\/15\/day-5-journeys-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 5: journey&#8217;s end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re at Melissa&#8217;s mom&#8217;s place, getting ready to sleep for a week after driving for a week. <\/p>\n<p>The drive through the Great Smoky Mountains was quite nice &#8212; there&#8217;s a ghostly charm unique to the southern Appalachians. I hoped to spot evidence of the Appalachian Trail but found out I missed the turn-off on the Tennessee side of the border. <\/p>\n<p>For now my main focus is kicking back after a long drive. I&#8217;ll post some pics for now and perhaps write a longer post on the experience of driving west to east later this week (if I get inspired.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/3824847142\/\" title=\"Smoky Mountain closeup by busybeingborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3251\/3824847142_07a34f7688.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Smoky Mountain closeup\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Approaching the Smokies east of Knoxville.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/3824848632\/\" title=\"Smokies wide shot by busybeingborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2434\/3824848632_bfda3ed12a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Smokies wide shot\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wider shot of the same area. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/3824850154\/\" title=\"Tunnel on the North Carolina side by busybeingborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3490\/3824850154_c6305a1d78.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Tunnel on the North Carolina side\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Second of a pair of short tunnels under the range. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/3824050603\/\" title=\"Wildflowers at a North Carolina rest stop by busybeingborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2611\/3824050603_57617bb5d7.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Wildflowers at a North Carolina rest stop\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Found these wildflowers at a rest stop on the Carolina side of the border, <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/busybeingborn\/3824853526\/\" title=\"Almost there by busybeingborn, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2454\/3824853526_03e6e00cbb.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"302\" alt=\"Almost there\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Almost there. Looks a lot like Tennessee, though the right of way isn&#8217;t groomed quite as well in North Carolina. <\/p>\n<p>Rest time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re at Melissa&#8217;s mom&#8217;s place, getting ready to sleep for a week after driving for a week. The drive through the Great Smoky Mountains was quite nice &#8212; there&#8217;s a ghostly charm unique to the southern Appalachians. I hoped to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/2009\/08\/15\/day-5-journeys-end\/\">Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}