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NORTH CAROLINA- CHEROKEE, NC- 5/23/99

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CHEROKEE, NORTH CAROLINA VISITED... 5-23-99

 

We leave Pisgah and head for Cherokee.  It takes about an hour, and we find a nice RV Park by a creek.  A lot of RV's here are enclosed with porches and many of the people have golf carts to drive.  It looks like a little retirement community.  We take a nap and then head for Harrah's gambling casino on the Indian reservation. It is a lot of fun. We have a dinner buffet in the Casino.  We win enough to play for four hours and then give the money back to the casino.

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wpeF5.jpg (10660 bytes) We find a beautiful spot on a creek and pick up many rocks. Paul chose mica and I chose quartz to collect during this hunt. wpeFD.jpg (10881 bytes)
We do show and tell back at the RV.  It's a lot of fun to see what each of us have picked as treasures.  We take a ride to a beautiful park in the middle of Cherokee. There is a little island in the middle of the city with a beautiful wooden bridge.  I meet a man and wife with their grand daughter from Lakeland, Florida.  They are here on vacation.

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CHEROKEE, NORTH CAROLINA RE-VISITED... 10-18-99

After leaving Biltmore, we proceeded west toward Cherokee on the Blue Ridge Parkway

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At one overlook, we were attacked by "killer ladybugs"

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 We wouldn't stop long enough to feed the Tyler's, so they resorted to a roadside trash can

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We paused along the way and each picked a rock face from a roadside bluff.  wpe291.jpg (5347 bytes) wpe292.jpg (4479 bytes) wpe293.jpg (6740 bytes)

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 We found Cherokee before dark and checked the Tyler's in a motel, parked the RV at the Smokey Mountain RV Park, ate dinner, and drowned a few quarters at Harrah's Casino in Cherokee.

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After a breakfast, we headed toward the mountains for more leaf-looking.  We stopped for a rest as we entered the Pisgah National Forest.

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 We found a trail and walked down it and down an embankment to a fast flowing creek. wpe23C.jpg (5605 bytes) wpe23D.jpg (6400 bytes)
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wpe266.jpg (5600 bytes) wpe23C.jpg (3862 bytes) A few fall flowers caught our attention. wpe259.jpg (6861 bytes) wpe249.jpg (6819 bytes) wpe255.jpg (10682 bytes)

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 Paul did a three mile trail run that followed the creek into the mountains. wpe242.jpg (8276 bytes) wpe245.jpg (4238 bytes) wpe25C.jpg (7276 bytes)

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 A few pictures of the creek were captured at the turn-around point in the run. wpe26A.jpg (11428 bytes)

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 This morning we departed Cherokee and headed toward Chattanooga.   We stopped at a couple of scenic pull-off's and the four year old gathered seed at a flower stop. wpe240.jpg (4279 bytes) wpe241.jpg (4850 bytes) wpe251.jpg (7459 bytes)
wpe242.jpg (8619 bytes) wpe23D.jpg (3406 bytes) wpe23F.jpg (6441 bytes) On a delightful side-trip into Georgia, we visited the "House that Jack... and Maggie Built".

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wpe259.jpg (6776 bytes) wpe2A4.jpg (9378 bytes) wpe29C.jpg (4814 bytes) We plotted our course to pass by the Ocoee River, but found only a trickle of water,

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wpe2A3.jpg (8189 bytes) wpe2A0.jpg (7946 bytes) We caught a rock face staring at us along the river bank.

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SIGNS OF THE TIMES IN CHEROKEE

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Chattanooga was reached about 4:00 AM and we checked into the Holiday Inn Choo Choo.  Our rooms were one half of a train car.  An interesting dinner was eaten at Chattanooga's historic train station.  Paul took a late night run into downtown Chattanooga to round out another fine day.

 

CHEROKEE, NORTH CAROLINA RE-VISITED... YET AGAIN 11-22-02

Gathering storm clouds on the approach to Cherokee, North Carolina

ECHOTA MISSION
Methodist.  Maintained by Holston Conference for Cherokee c 1840 - 1885.  School established 1850.  Missionary's house stands 50 yards north.
Harrahs Casino at Cherokee
Your explorers, not being gamblers at heart, but finding great entertainment in gambling, spent some time in Cherokee's Casino.  We found it to be friendly, but very boring and not at all fun to play their slot machines.  The machines are almost all the same and winning enough to keep playing is impossible.  We observed practically no one winning, and the excitement level was almost non-existent throughout the whole casino.  Our conclusion was that the operators are greedy with their pay back percentage to the point of ruining their casino.

There are many more casino's throughout the country where you can have fun.  Take our advice and don't waste your time at this one.
To follow is a  composite of  pictures showing Harrah's Casino in Cherokee

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