A trip to Smoky Mountains

Once in a while you would feel to take off from work and have some private time for yourself with some of your best friends/family. One such place to go is Smoky's. Man I loved it what a visit.You will see all the peacefulness in the world. You will be surrounded by mother nature and you just forget yourselves in those deep old forests. If you want to see the wonders of Nature, Smoky's is a must go place.

Must take:

• A set of warm clothes. The temperatures may go down till 10 degrees when you go to a high altitude , so better to have a pair of warm clothes
• If you are hiking lover, take a pair of hiking shoes. You have a very good spot at the chimney tops to go for hiking.
• Set of swim suits.
• Set of walking shoes.
• A good amount of your kind of food :) .
  

Stay and Expenses:
We booked a hotel in Gatlinburg,TN which is very near to many attractions in Smoky's. It costed us around 80$ per night with all the taxes. It was a good place just around the corner we had Burger king so you could alwaya grab something if you want to start early in the morning. The place itself has many hotels and the food is not too costly (as such in many places where I have been to the food seemed to be very expensive just because its a tourist area). You can always park the car in your hotel and walk around the place to see the attractions.You will have a good time in Gatlinburg as you have special attractions such as Sky Limit ,Panorama where they would take you on a ride to the hill top and you can have a very clear view of the mountains.
You can see Ripley's Believe it or not, Wax Museum , play Golf etc. You have lot of attraction in this area.
You can also stay at Pegion Forge, but its a 12- 14 mile ride to smoky's and moreover I would say the Traffic would be very heavy and you might not want to get bored and waste ur time in all of this traffic.


Places I Have been to:
Since we are staying at Gatlinburg, the very near and first place to go will the Laurel Falls and Cadescove.
Few miles away from Sugarland visitor center , these are the beautiful and easy to go waterfalls.
This wide paved trail is 1.3 miles until it reaches the 75-foot Laurel Fall. You will enjoy every moment in here and forget all the stress once you are up here.
You can have beautiful view of the mountains covered in clouds all through this trail. You see different wild flowers all through this path.
It will be a wonderful ride to Cades Cove, you have a river creek following you all the way while u are on road.. You have a wonderful road trip to the wildlife. All way long you can see many deers, birds, big cows :) ..


There are certain waterfalls which you dont to miss.
Some of them are Mingo Falls, Indian creek Falls etc. There are on other side of smoky's what i mean is on the cherokee end.
Thats the wonderful place you want to taste the fudge and see how Indians dress and capture bears.

You will be on a wonderful ride  from Gattlinburg to Grand Cherokee ..You have the Clingmans dome
where you can be (according to me ) on top of world and enjoy the very moment in our life .




Some of my trips pics are in flickr.

Enjoy them and have a wonderful and safe trip to Smoky's.
One more thing I would do is , check how the weather conditions and fall colors are in the website and proceed to my trip  :) 
http://www.nps.gov/grsm/photosmultimedia/webcams.htm.






I couldnt put much info as Im dragged away from my blog due to few personal reasons, but I m sure I shall update it one day very well.. :)

Do people play so well .. Or Am I such a fool ... ??

One fine evening after a long day work a woman in her mid 20's trying to have some coffee sitting in her patio chair .. There was some noise which disturbed her loneliness .. her phone was ringing so loud .. that she had to come out of her dream land to her real world ... When she saw the display .. she was a bit alarmed and not so happy .. few things flashed into her mind and she had to go back in here for few years from now ....

5 Years ago .. she was a happy female, working and enjoying every moment in her life .. she had no worries and major responsibilities and all that she know of is to keep things rolling for few people around her to make them happy .. One Sunday afternoon she receives a call from her cousin, stating that its a family emergency. At that point of time all that she could think of is one person who might have ruined everybody's life's. Her instinct was right, when she meets her cousin, and then hears the complaints about that person whom she never want to think of in her life, J. C starts telling her that Jamie and herself were in love for the past 4 years and now, he is trying to avoid her and dont even respond to his calls. She was suspicious about this guy , even though Jamie is a friend if her's she knows how flirty he can be and how bad he can be. He just doesn't give a damn about others. So she convinces her cousin C, that she would speak with him and try to figure out a way to end this. After couple of discussions, J makes it clear that hes flirting with C and dont have any intentions to marry her. He claims that he is a fun loving guy and never takes things so seriously.There are couple of moments in life which turned her against J and somethings are always good when kept as secret. But she started to think, if she supports C, she could never fal into the trap of J. her friends suggests her to mind her own business, as in the end, C&J will get married. But like I said, she want to take her chances.

She fights along with C to make this thing end. During this time, there are several times when she lied to her friends about C & J and there are times when she cried to heart hoping that everything should be happy and no one should get hurt. Due to all these crazy things happening in her life .. she just lost it .. she lost the grip of her life .. her daily routine and moreover all her friends were gone.. time pass by .. J or C doesn't cool down and there are issues all around.. she came to know new things about J which she never knew and was very sad that he was by her side for more than 16 years and whatever she knew about him is all wrong. Well with all these issues, years passed by .. no one have track of things and things were still the same.

That was a day when shez throwing a big party to her remaining friends and it was a big day to her .. She was excited and happy .. until she sees J at her steps . She questions him why he is here .. hez crazy and she asks him to leave he wouldn't. He made her most happiest day ... the most dreadful day in life ... he fights with her and leaves the place making it a mess ..calls her parents and speaks all the bad things about her .... and informs her parents that he would marry her .... and life is totally different for her from then .. she couldn't face anyone anymore. Her parents and all her friends blames her for what had happened and no one believed her any more. She calls C and tells her that he did all this and now is behind her ....and C says that we will allow this topic to rest. We shall not speak about J anymore in our lives.
As time goes on after all the storm in everyone's life .. she moves to a place where know one knows her past and minds her own work and start to live her self , until one day C calls her and tells that she is rethinking of uniting with J and wanted to know if she has any problem with that and if he is with someone else ... She has no words when he hears that and tells C not to call her again. She confirms C that she know nothing of J and not in contact with him anymore and is not interested in speaking about this issue anymore as it has already caused so many issues and pains to so many people in her family. But she was hoping in her heart that this situation should never come again in her future again ... But  No one know what next thing in life could be ..

Today ... Phone is still ringing and she is not interested to pick that call.Its from J again.She got reminded of how he called her few months back and spoke all the things about her past. She just dont want to take an other chance .. she always had an option not to pick the call or to pick the call .. but she did she picked the call... J says that .. finally C and J are getting married and if in case C's parents would call her or ask her about J, she just have to deny everything. He wanted her to say that she dont know him and is just a friend and nothing else .. She grads all her courage and calls C and asks her and she says yes,I m planning to marry J. And she suggests her that all this happens in life and we just gotta move on and cant sacrifice relations for the sake of some fights and other relations J has, that she truly loved him and that he is loyal to her . She wondered is the same C that spoke with her a year ago who was waiting to take down J if she has got any chances..Well she asks her to let go the issue as its already solved b/n them.for a moment even though its a predicted thing to happen and a shock to her .. she thought .. if all this could have happened 4 years ago .. may be everyone would have been very happy .. she would have never lost her friends and above all her own life which was living happily would have always being there. All these thoughts crossed into her mind, she wanted to take advantage of the situation and make things worse for them like they made for her .. but she thought is it really me ??? Can I do it ?? Should I do it ?? why dont people give a damn about her ?? and understand her emotions ??? or may be its just fate ???

Well after all said and done, she doesn't have much of an option, she always wanted to live her life away from these issues , may be it wont be the same / cant be the same ..she's reminded of her old friends who warned her about all this happening and her parents how they felt when J called them  and then ... she just takes her empty coffee cup .. make some coffee for herself .. and starts to think .. do people play me so well .. or Am I such a fool  or am in my dream land all way long .... ????