Apparently Cocke County is a rough area - who could guess??
I spent most of the morning sitting shotgun and navigating while Joy drove us around to various schools in the area to drop off educational DVDs about the park. It was warm and sunny, so the car ride was relaxing (if not completely nap-inducing) and we got to talk about lots of random things from music to tattoos to sushi.
I went on another walk this afternoon on a nature trail near the visitor's center. Towards the end of the trail was an old cabin that had been restored by the park using mostly its original materials. Needless to say, it scared the poop out of me. I could hardly approach the damn thing - the nearer I got, the more I thought, "Isn't this the part where lone ethnic woman gets captured by mountain people, only to have her skin peeled off and fed to her?" Think Deliverance meets that episode of the X-Files where they find that incestuous, deformed, murderous family out in the boonies. Scary, yeah??
Tomorrow I am going out with other people in Resource Education (the division I work for) to finally see some classroom presentations in action. More on that tomorrow!
