Tag: Tennessee
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Celebrating the Year of the Dragon {Tennessee}
One of the great things about working at a university is getting to enjoy the different events and activities that happen across campus as well as being ‘in the know’ about the great places on campus. And one of the university’s greatest places , that is relatively unknown even for many who work here, is…
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Cave Tour at Ruby Falls {Tennessee}
We have been to Chattanooga many times, and yet there are still things that remain on our list of places to visit and things to do. Near the top of that list is to visit Ruby Falls on Lookout Mountain. We have visited the neighboring attraction of Rock City Gardens a few times and every…
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Snow Day at Old Stone Fort State Park {Tenneessee}
Tennessee got snow! For weeks we’ve been enviously seeing others get snow and looking up at the winter sky and wishing for the clouds to open up with flurries of snow for us. And finally, they obliged and sent a massive snow snow storm throughout the state. It is a pretty rare thing for us…
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Waterfall & Colored Leaves at Fall Creek Falls State Park {Tennessee}
The last couple of years I have worked with international students and one of my favorite things to do is to take them hiking at one of the many state parks here in Tennessee. I love sharing these parts of the state that they wouldn’t see otherwise and I love that they find there is…
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Camping in Big South Fork National Recreation Area {Tennessee}
We have not had good luck with camping over the years. Even though we love camping and wanted it to be part of our family’s adventures- we have not done it very much due to the mishaps of prior trips and the growing concern that maybe we’re cursed. Our first attempt came when we were…
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A Weekend in the Appalachian Mountains {Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, & Kentucky}
Things have been a little crazy for me lately. Amid a terrible heat wave that I was sure would kill me off, I spent a week welcoming our new international students to the university with a lot of activities and workshops and tours that I was in charge of. We also celebrated my daughter’s birthday…
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An Untold Story of Friends & Whiskey- Nearest Green Distillery {Tennessee}
One of the hallmarks of Tennessee is whiskey. And when you talk of Tennessee whiskey, the first name that comes to mind is that of Jack Daniels who learned to make whiskey at a young age and went to defy prohibition and create a thriving business of a world renown fame. But there is another…
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Hiking to the Great Stone Door- Savage Gulf State Park {Tennessee}
Another weekend and another state park marked off on our goal of seeing all of the Tennessee state parks. This time we headed south east to Savage Gulf State Park so we could hike to the famed Great Stone Door. Savage Gulf is Tennessee’s newest state park. At one point Savage Gulf was a state…