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South East Tour Day 9 Smoky Mountains Last night there was a lot of rain and thunder.  The temperature fell quite a bit.  I had long johns in my tent, but they were sitting against the side and where wet. Kim and I awoke long before the girls.  I got the fire going again while Kim boiled water for oatmeal.  I put tinfoil on the gril over the fire and took turns placing an article of wet clothing from the line on it to dry.  I would get them mostly dry and place them back on the line to finish drying.  The rain was completely gone, and the clouds that were still in the sky did not look threatening. After the girls awoke, were fed and dressed, we headed towards Cades Cove to rent some bicycles.  The bike riding didnt go quite as well as planned, but was still fun.  Athena still needs training wheels, and the ones on her rental bike where kind of crooked, which kept her off balance. Being in the mountains, there were plenty of hills.  Athena and...

South East Tour Day 8 Nashville to Smoky Mountains This morning Kim and I woke to the 7:30 alarm we set on her phone.  We immediately began packing and gradually got the girls up, dressed and fed. There was a pretty heavy overcast, but we were going to try and get a dip in the lake before we left.  However, as soon as we got fully packed up and down to the lake it began to pour and thunder.  The swim was going to act as our final "bath" before we headed to the Smokys, as there are no showing facilities there.  Since the lake wasnt going to happen, we drove up to the bath house and took proper showers.  We were scheduled to turn in our rental car today, which meant the GPS had to go with it.  We couldnt find our Tennessee map, so we decided to meet somewhere dry to figure out what to do next.  Kim led us I.to a McDonalds/gas station that had free wireless.  There we filled up our tanks, ate brunch, and pulled up directions on our Chrome laptop, whi...