Road Trip Day 9, Monday - Great Smokey Mountains

We continued down the Blue Ridge Parkway in fog and rain.  The road runs down the ridge line and the overlooks go from one side to the other.  A good bit of the time we were in a cloud.

The  fog/cloud gave everything a soft haze.

The view from the top.

There was a sign that explained the geology.

We did get a pretty good view of Looking Glass Rock.

In Cherokee, North Carolina we visited the Cherokee National Museum. Between 1836 and 1838 most Cherokees were forced to abandon their property in the south-eastern states to settle in what is now Oklahoma.  See HERE.  

Cherokee history is told with Dioramas.

And with historical artifacts.

From the Cherokee Museum we drove west on highway 441 through the Great Smokey Mountain National Park

We enjoyed the scenery as best we could -

as we drifted in and out of the clouds.