Road Trip - Day 2

Today Mrs. Landry and I left North Carolina and drove into Tennessee. We drove through a national park called Smoky Mountains National Park. There aren't many national parks around the country, but did you know that Hawaii has two? They are Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island and Haleakala National Park on Maui. Have any of you been to those?

The Smoky Mountains were really pretty. They are covered in trees and really do look smoky because of gas that is released by all of the plants. The road was really curvy, so we drove slowly. Finally, we got to a town in Tennessee called Gatlinburg. We stayed at a small inn there called the Buckhorn Inn. It was a bed and breakfast, which means that you get a great breakfast when you wake up. I had French toast with bananas and bacon.

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Road Trip - Day 1

Hey guys! Mrs. Landry and I are driving from South Carolina to Seattle, WA. That's very, super, really far! It's 3,000 miles - that's about the same distance as Hawaii to California.

We started driving yesterday, and it took us 3.5 hours to get to our first location. We went from Mrs. Landry's parents' house in South Carolina to a little city called Asheville, in North Carolina. It was a long drive, but it wasn't too bad. We listened to a lot of different things on the radio, and talked a lot.

When we got to Asheville, we went to a really nice hotel where we swam in the pools for a while. Then we went out to dinner. We ate some fried green tomatoes (don't say eww until you try them!), and I had a meal with shrimp and scallops. For dessert, Mrs. Landry got some ice cream from Marble Slab. She even gave me a couple of bites!

Check out the photos below. And for those of you who haven't written to tell me what you've been doing this summer, you'd better send me an email!

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