Tennessee / North Carolina Trip

Di: We had a GREAT time on vacation. This is the first one we have taken in about 3 years. We jetted off in our rented Chevy Malibu on Thursday Oct 5th and after an overnight stay in a Nashville Motel, it was off to the …


Di: This National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough Tenn was extraordinarly well organized. There were 6 tents scattered around the historic downtown area, all within 3 blocks of each other. The biggest tent would probably hold about 2,500 folks (That’s what the Brady holds!). The others around 1,500.

Di: We did not get a count for this year, but last year they had over 10,000 attendees. This was also the 34th Annual Festival, so they been doing this a very long time. No tolerance for camera’s or filiming in ANY of the tents, so I just got a few outside shots …

Di:The grounds were beautiful … I’m on one of the many paths around the downtown area that was beautifully landscapped. As usual, DJ told me to lift my top …

Di: Our favorite Comedic Storyteller was Kevin Kling … He has been featured many times on NPR and really must be SEEN to be appreciated. He told stories of taxidermy, Valentines Day and adventures in marching band, all from his school days. He had the ability to make an audience laugh and cry (I mean a touching, heartfelt cry) in the span of about a minute.

Di: Here we are at Linnville Falls, located in the Applachia Mountains in NC. We took a day trip here and hiked through the woods for about an hour. It was quite a workout. I had my hiking dress on, of course. As we were emerging from the woods, two women just starting into the woods in passing said, “Oh Look, Hippies!” We all got a good laugh out of that …

Di: Later that same day, we went to Grandfather Mountain. DJ went all the way to the top of it. I was a little nervous about the climb in my sandals. It was stunningly beautiful up there … over 5,800 feet up. Here’s the Mile High Swinging Bridge and only 40 people can be on it at a time.

More to come…..