Great Smoky Mountains, NC

It feels good to be in mountains again. After non-stop, near 100F of Florida and Georgia, the low 80s feel good. The steep, green slopes make me simply happy to look at, they remind me of the shapes of Gorce Mounatins, Poland, where I grew up. The mounatins really conrast with the boredom of the plains that I so despise -- I do love ocean, but not the flatlands. I think Oregon, or British Columbia would be a place for me, ocean and the mountains, that is of course if I cannot live in Pyrenees, near the Mediterean Sea. I better start working on my Spanish/Catalonian/French!
Tonight, it is too late to look around, early start tomorrow. I having a dinner in the nice family Italian restaurant, per recommendation, ah chicken florentina!!!

Liliann is my faithful companion, today we drove for some 7 hours, she did not sleep a minute, not a single complaint.