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vacation: the good
Posted on | June 2, 2009 | 18 Comments
Wow! Thanks for the encouraging words, and thanks especially to those who shared your own vacation woe-stories! It certainly makes it easier to think that we did the right thing by throwing in the towel on our Frontier House vacation!
So…back to the story. We drove home Tuesday afternoon, ending a 34 hour round trip from Alabama to North Carolina. Whew! We gave the weather a couple of days to improve and headed out early Friday to the Foster Falls Campground in Sequatchie, Tennessee. It rained a little on the way, but by the time we got there, the rain had stopped and it was wonderfully cool.
We hiked to the Open Door in the Savage Gulf State Natual Area – lots of stairs – I did not climb them all!
We saw more big trees…
and overlooks…
We visited the waterfall at Foster Falls, and I did climb all of THESE stairs:
I agree, it doesn’t look much like stairs, it looks like a big ole pile of rocks!
We had campfires both nights and great weather and even the roosters at the neighboring farm didn’t dampen our spirits! It was a wonderful end to our vacation and I already can’t wait to go back! There was even KNITTING!
This is the handspun Buffalo Robe roving I posted recently, and a really good start on the Tilly scarf from A Fine Fleece. Great pattern, great yarn, I am deeply in love with this scarf!
I think this is my favorite picture. He’s growing up so fast!
Thanks for bearing with me and my stories! btw - my office has blocked flickr as a “personal and social networking site” so I’ll have to start reading blogs at home so I can see the pictures! Can’t see anything on Ravelry, either. I imagine my productivity is going to increase tenfold!
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June 2nd, 2009 @ 11:21 am
I’m so glad things got better, that there was knitting and that you all had a good time.
Love the trees and waterfall!
June 2nd, 2009 @ 11:25 am
sounds like it was just lovely, and that you made the right decision. (for me, i think the question is always: what is the goal here? are we still having fun? if not, a change is in order.) welcome back, and boo on your office’s IT policies…
June 2nd, 2009 @ 11:41 am
That knitting looks right at home in the outdoors — a bit rustic and natural. What a great spot you guys picked!
June 2nd, 2009 @ 11:49 am
Everything is so freakin’ green! I can’t get over it. (I forget how it is back east!).
June 2nd, 2009 @ 11:50 am
Those stairs! How gorgeous!
June 2nd, 2009 @ 11:52 am
I’m so glad the vacation ended on an up note!! Beautiful pictures….all that AND knitting!!! Great Vacation Indeed!!
June 2nd, 2009 @ 11:56 am
Looks fantastic to me. Who cares about Frontier house when you have that great view? Must try camping with the boys soon, I think.
And FYI, my old work blocked flickr and rav and all sorts of stuff too. But only if you were viewing them in IE…
June 2nd, 2009 @ 11:58 am
Great vacation photos! And I love the look of that knitting!
June 2nd, 2009 @ 12:10 pm
You made lemons into lemonade! Nice vacation!
June 2nd, 2009 @ 1:20 pm
oh that stinks that they’ve blocked flickr – I can tell you for certain that you’ll still be able to read Carole’s blog at work since she won’t use flickr because of the blockage. ;o)
Lovely photos – what a beautiful park!
June 2nd, 2009 @ 1:49 pm
Great Pictures. My office blocked Flickr a long time ago, but it seems people are uploading more files to blogs and ravelry directly from their computer, and I can see those.
Glad the vacation that started not so well ended up well.
June 2nd, 2009 @ 2:25 pm
I saw a BSA t-shirt (hopefully a ‘camp’ one!). If he’s still involved, have his troop check out here for future summer camp locations:
http://www.cpcbsa.org/camp-properties/propertylist/index.html We have gorgeous properties!
Proud mom of an Eagle Scout. ;-)
June 2nd, 2009 @ 5:02 pm
I’m glad to hear you had a great end to your vacation story. What beautiful photos!
June 3rd, 2009 @ 4:52 am
Good save! Those pictures give a good flavor of what you saw. (Love the stairs, the trees.)
June 3rd, 2009 @ 4:59 am
Oh, my gosh those are just beautiful photos! What a lovely time!
I’ve got that scarf in my queue – love it!
Ravelry is blocked at my work, too – good for productivity, annoying when I need to find something quickly!
June 3rd, 2009 @ 6:51 am
What a lovely vacation! I love waterfalls! Michigan’s upper peninsula has over 130 falls but I’ve only seen a very small fraction of them. I love how that yarn is knitting up. It’s really pretty.
June 4th, 2009 @ 10:52 am
OH what fun! Just gorgeous!
June 6th, 2009 @ 4:04 am
sounds like you made the only sane decision–leaving. i’ve learned that vacations, no matter how well planned, are like the rest of life. ya gotta be flexible!