Today was a big driving day and I left Charleston in the morning and drove most of the day Northwest to the Great Smokey Mountains. It took far longer than I anticipated though and the route up to the campsite was completed in darkness, not helped by a couple of wrong turns. I really wanted a shower but this was a National Park and they didn’t do cold showers nevermind warm ones. I would have to suffer with a sponge bath. I slept in the back not bothering with the tent and nearly froze to death anyway, the nighttime temperature hovering just above freezing and me with no firewood.



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