Comments on: Frontier House

By: Janice in GA

Janice in GA — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:10:02 +0000

Forgot to mention that I LOVE Joyce Kilmer forest. It’s been WAY too long since I’ve been there.

My one backpacking trip (solo, with dog) was taken near there, near Robbinsville. It’s lovely country.

By: Janice in GA

Janice in GA — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:07:26 +0000

I could have (sorta) lived with mice, but bats? I’d worry about RABIES!!! That’s scary stuff.

By: Bubblesknits

Bubblesknits — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:59:20 +0000

Okay, really, I’m trying not to laugh, but I’m failing miserably. :-) This is one of the best vacation posts I’ve read in a while. I don’t blame you for leaving, though. When I was a teenager, I went bat watching at Sauta Cave in Jackson County. Tons and tons of bats poured out of that cave at dusk and I remember what the ground looked like at the entrance to the cave. I would NOT want that on my head. lol

By: Stacey

Stacey — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:14:05 +0000

Sorry you had a crummy cabin experience. I did no know I hated mountain roads until I moved to here. We are house hunting a little out from Asheville. Being stranded on a mountain is real no matter the time of year. don’t get me started on the bear thing.

By: crazy for yarn in alabama

crazy for yarn in alabama — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:02:36 +0000

You are a braver woman than I am!! Mouse droppings on the pillow? I would have been in the car…..headed to the nearest hotel! LOL!!

Sorry the weather was bad….hopefully ya’ll can make it back another time!

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:39:50 +0000

I’d really like to think that I would have stuck it out, but truthfully? The rain wouldn’t have bothered me–but mice droppings on my pillow and bats at night–I wouldn’t have made it either.

By: Kai

Kai — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:05:14 +0000

I love the look of the cabin and could’ve dealt with the mice, like you.

But unlike your cool, calm, collected reasoning and dealing with the bats, I would’ve FREAKED!!! :)

Kudos to you and the boys. Much respect.

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:54:59 +0000

OMG! Rain killed our vacation too, but at least there weren’t any bats! I can’t believe you made it to the porch – I wouldn’t have left the sleeping bag without lots of coaxing and possibly drugs.

I look forward to hearing how the rest of the vacation went!

By: cyndy

cyndy — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:23:35 +0000

a memorable adventure if nothing else, and the trail looks very lovely–

Good that you left the place to the critters–mouse droppings + bat guano= health concerns! Where is the dept of health??

By: Diane

Diane — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:03:59 +0000

Years ago my husband and I took a week long canoe trip into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The first day was beautiful and we paddled and backpacked for miles into the wilderness.

The next day the weather turned. The temperature dropped, it rained and the wind blew. And the next. And the next. We lasted 6 of the seven days and then left for the pickup point a day early.

He still remembers it as the worst vacation ever, I still think of it as a big adventure.

For all of that, I would have been out of the cabin when I found the mouse dropping on my pillow!