I will never forget going to Dollywood with my extremely skeptical dad, who only knew Dolly from “9 to 5”. After all the cheesy hillbilly stuff on the Pigeon Forge strip, he expected more of the same. But there’s a train ride through her childhood, and I can count that as one of the only times in my entire life that I’ve seen my father shed tears.
The Smoky Mt Nat’l Park is truly beautiful and worth seeing. I saw a black bear mother with her cubs, eating huckleberries.
