Atlanta Bread Company--Pigeon Forge, TN

Using a unique route home would have been preferable BUT there is comfort in retracing my steps. I KNEW I could get WiFi at Atlanta Bread Company in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. AND, I wanted to give this area one last chance: I was not impressed a year ago!! So I plan to visit Dollywood, and Gaitinburg--and never return to this tourist "trap" again. I want to drive back through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park because raining nineteen days ago. ~~ I failed to time myself from Interstate 40 to this parking lot. It seemed like an hour because highway construction all the way and bumper-to-bumper traffic. We had to stop for every signal!!

I left Berea, Kentucky, at 8:25 this morning, after breakfast in Cracker Barrel. On my way to this location, I stopped at Kentucky Music Hall of Fame in Renfro Valley (but it is closed on Monday and Tuesday). I made a five miles detour in Corbin, KY, to see the "cafe" where Colonel Sanders started his famous Kentucky Fried Chicken. I also visited the Museum of Appalachia, in Norris, TN, but limited my viewing to the gift shop and whatever buildings I could see from the parking lot. I didn't want to pay the high price of admission. ~~ Only 175 miles today.