Last Day
April 25th This morning we did some last minute site-seeing and checked out some of the local shops. Later in the afternoon we packed and relaxed. Tomorrow will be a long day in the car. Before getting to our first destination we saw more elk. This time they were all bulls of varying ages. Don't worry, I wasn't the driver. This is from the back seat. We spent some time walking around a beautiful park on an island in Cherokee. There is a quest to find as many bear statues as you can in Cherokee. I snapped some pictures going through, there are some I missed. This painting is from a map dated 1838. The Oconaluftee Visitor Center and Mountain Farm Museum were our next stop. The visitor center had lots of history about the Smoky Mountains. One neat thing I kind of learned was how apples could be dried. Apparently they put cut apples in a basket in a bucket with a red hot ax. As the ax cools, the apples dry. Pretty neat. ...