Exploring Downtown Gatlinburg

​June 28th - We got a late start again today. Didn't leave the camper until around 11am. But we decided to leave General at home (and felt extremely guilty about it all day long!), drove to the Welcome Center, and took the trolley into downtown Gatlinburg. 

​Parking is hard to find and very expensive in town ($10), so we figured this would be easier. But what we didn't count on is that  waiting for the trolley, and then the actual ride into town and back, would cut into our allotted time by about 1.5 hours. Where parking in town would have given us much more time to explore. Oh well. Lesson learned. LOL.  It started to rain just as we got into town, and silly us, we had walked out of the house without our raincoats and our umbrellas. But we were able to score some cheap ponchos from the Aquarium Gift Shop, and set off to explore. We ate lunch at Old Red, which was unremarkable, and took forever. 

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​We visited Cooter's place, which was a very small Dukes of Hazard museum, but free and still worth taking a look. 

​Then we had a great time walking around. Found a place called "The Village" which was literally a small village of shops and snack places set back behind the rest of the stores on the strip. It was really a pretty awesome place! We got a t-shirt, and some ice cream, and really enjoyed looking in the shops!

​We got back home around 6:30, determined to spend quality time with General for the remainder of the evening!

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