On the 24th we left for Maryville Tennessee. We drove 9 hours the first day to Memphis and then 7 hours the second day to arrive in Maryville. We traveled there to attend the funeral of the mother of our friend John Johnston. Betty Johnson was a wonderful woman who adopted John’s friends as her own sons. We were always welcome to stop in and visit. She passed in May at the age of 98 in Waco but wanted to be buried next to her husband in Maryville. She moved to Waco several years ago to be closer to John and his family. We met up with our friends John, Cheryl, Davis, their friend Gala and Darrel for dinner the night we arrived. The memorial and interment were held on the 26th. On the 27th we all met at their AirBNB, drove over to Smoky Mountains National Park and drove the Cades Cove loop before heading back to Maryville for Lunch. On the loop we saw some deer and black bears. The 28th, after dropping Gala and Davis off at the airport, we had lunch and went over to their AirBNB and just hung out, watched movies and caught up. The 29th we headed back for Texas but took the southern route. We traveled along with Darrel for the first half, but he peeled off after lunch and we stopped at Jackson for the night. We arrived home in the late afternoon of the 30th. It was our first trip with Kiera staying in hotels rather than the RV. Every hotel had different pet restrictions and most had an additional pet charge which we had not been informed of at the time we made the reservations. Kiera did really well with only a few incidents of barking at noises in the hallways late at night.
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| Dinner in Maryville |
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| The Smoke in the Smoky Mountains |
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| Grist Mill in Cades Cove |
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